You guys gave me an idea with the Green Machine in Machine Gun magazine! If I remember correctly, the builders were trying to achieve 440 hz, the note "A", to which all music is tuned to. Anyway, I'm a musician/producer as well as a tattoo artist. I've played piano since the age of 6... and I've produced 5 cds.
I've recently gotten into sampled instruments. Sampled notes from various instruments can be mapped out note-for-note, and then assigned to the corresponding "piano keys" on a digital keyboard, or synthesizer. The recorded notes can then be played by pushing the keys, in real-time. So, I brought my 1997 Mickey B tattoo machine into the studio, and my power-box footswitch.
I tuned the machine down as far as it would go, and then I recorded that note. I tuned it up a little, and recorded it again, all the way through as many notes I could achieve by simply adjusting the machine and voltages. I used software to alter existing notes to "fill in the gaps" and cover each and every note I would need for playing it as an instrument. It worked!
This is the machine used to build the instrument. It is a 1997 Mickey B. The contact-point skull was carved by a local artist from wooly mammoth tusk. The springs, armature bar and coils are Eikon products. The coil wraps are background textures from a wall in an old game called "Doom". I've owned this machine for ten years.
LISTEN TO AARON BEWZA'S TATTOO MACHINE MOZART - PRESS PLAY
