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MUSICAL INSTRUMENT sa BAGPIPE sa BANJO sa BASS FIDDLE sa BELL sa CELLO sa CLARINET sa DRUM & PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT sa DULCIMER sa FLUTE sa GUITAR sa HARMONICA sa HARP sa HARPSICHORD sa KAZOO sa LUTE sa MANDOLIN sa MARIMBA sa MOUTH BOW sa MUSICAL INSTRUMENT -- ELECTRONIC sa MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TUNING sa ORGAN sa PIANO sa PSALTERY sa RASP (MUSICAL INSTRUMENT) sa THUMB PIANO sa UKULELE sa VIOLIN sa WHISTLE sa WIND CHIME sa XYLOPHONE xx MUSIC xx SOUND EFFECTS The tradition of wind instrument making. Includes tips on boring the spindles, finishing, selecting wood, etc. Horn bugle made from a cow's horn. Make a bugle or powder horn. How to make a household band. Instruments are from common items found around the house. Homemade instruments. Tips on making a "shekere", an African musical instrument made from a gourd or clay pot covered with a net-like fabric on which are strung shells. Makes a sound like "ocean waves". Hot-pipe bending is suggested as being better than the boiling and molding method for making musical instruments. The resin will not be lost with the hot-pipe method. Tip: How to keep varnish from penetrating the softwood face of a stringed instrument by applying skim milk prior to the application of the varnish. Tip: Make your own wooden, preset router guides to cut the "purfling" rabbet on a stringed instrument. How to make a Swiss alphorn from a small fir (or spruce) tree that has grown on a slope. A 12-ft. long piece of the tree will yield a C-horn. How to make and play (1) a gutbucket, (2) a washboard, (3) a jug, (4) a kazoo, (5) a musical saw, and (6) spoons. How to acquire a good used musical instrument. Tips on ways to get started making music with others. Homegrown music and musical instruments. A look at jam sessions and song swaps. How to make money with homegrown music. How to play a musical saw. How to play the spoons. A plastic-jug bugle. Make this musical instrument from a plastic jug, a length of tubing, and a plastic film container. Create your own circus music. Build this mini-calliope. A keyboard and metal pipes actually operate to make music from air rushing through the pipes. Takes about 40 hours to build. Pipes of Pan. A simple musical instrument made from wood and PVC pipe produces the pentatonic musical scale by blowing across the ends of the pipes. A renaissance for handcrafted psalteries. An overview of the bowed psaltery, a stringed musical instrument that is triangular in shape and features 30 strings. Includes tips on construction. Singing bowl (sounding bowl). Unusual musical instrument is made by fitting a turned wooden bowl with eight strings. The oboe. How to make a wooden oboe. Requires lathe work. The music of wood. An overview of the art, craft and science of the instrument makers. (6 articles) Plans and construction details for a symphonie, which is an early form of the hurdy gurdy. Tips on making an alpenhorn. Clamping jig uses rubberbands and movable travellers to hold thin stock of irregular shape. Ideal for clamping of musical-instrument soundboards and backpieces of any shape. | |||||||||
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