Wow, as both an electrical engineer and avid amateur musician, this is pretty fascinating. The first place winner from last year is pretty cool.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hRxr3ZWVjM4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hRxr3ZWVjM4</a><p>It appears to be a very sophisticated voice synthesizer. (And of course they made it sound like a Hindustani raga singer).<p>It seems like most of the contestants are various electronic instruments. But personally, I&#x27;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&#x27;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).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hulusi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hulusi</a>