Wow, as both an electrical engineer and avid amateur musician, this is pretty fascinating. The first place winner from last year is pretty cool. https://www.yo

Wow, as both an electrical engineer and avid amateur musician, this is pretty fascinating. The first place winner from last year is pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRxr3ZWVjM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRxr3ZWVjM4 It appears to be a very sophisticated voice synthesizer. (And of course they made it sound like a Hindustani raga singer). It seems like most of the contestants are various electronic instruments. But personally, I'd like to see more innovation in acoustic instruments, particularly wind instruments (my bias as a wind instrument player). The not-yet-invented musical instrument I'd most like to play would be something like the Chinese Hulusi, except made out of metal like a western concert flute, a saxophone-style fingering system on the melody pipe, and adjustable slides on the drone pipes. This would allow a wind player to play melody + chords without accompaniment and without requiring a tight embouchure (seriously, maintaining embouchure for an extended period of time is really tiring). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulusi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulusi