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DRUM & PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT sa BELL sa MARIMBA sa RASP (MUSICAL INSTRUMENT) sa XYLOPHONE x PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT xx MUSICAL INSTRUMENT How to make old-time rhythm band instruments. Instructions included for making: maracas, a rubber-band guitar, a slide whistle, a washtub bass, a tom-tom, clacking spoons and a xylophone. Padauk drum. Wooden drum emits resonate muted tones no matter how hard you beat the top with rubber mallets. Est. cost: $12. Kids making music. How to make percussion instruments (gong, drum and shaker) from items found around the house. Glockenspiel, drum, cymbals, triangle and hummer. Three South American instruments, a flute, a drum, and maracas. Pioneer musical instruments: drum bucket, sand block, washboard, cake-pan banjo, bucket bass, towel-tube kazoo and jug-band tuba. How to make bongo drums from coffee cans. Tips on musical instruments you can make from scrap materials. Includes tin can drums, washtub bass, gong, etc. How to make an African talking drum. Electronic bongos. Three miniature bongos can produce the sounds of practically any percussive instrument (drums, wood blocks, gongs, claves, etc.). Use any external amplifier. Each different sound costs about $3 to produce. Electronic drums and cymbals play 11 rhythms (waltz, march, polka, cha-cha, tango, etc.). Est. cost: $40. Electronic rhythm generator (sideman) for piano or organ. Lays down a steady beat like the bass drum, snare and high hat. Electronic bongo drum is housed in a conventional bongo drum body but is capable of a wider range of pitch and volume. ThumbDrum. A controller that converts finger drumming into real drum sounds. Can be equipped with either (1) a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) for connection to a computer or (2) a tone board to produce the sounds of a bass, tom-tom, snare, conga, wood-block, clave and synth drum. Est. cost: $99-$165 (kit). Part 1. Operating theory. ThumbDrum. Part 2. Construction. Electronic percussion instruments. Construction details for a battery-powered circuit that produces the sound of a drum, tom-tom, bongo, and blocks by pressing buttons. Disco king. An electronic circuit which will produce the standard disco percussive patterns plus three variations. Also doubles as a base drum synthesizer. Est. cost: $20. Wooden drum, patterned after the teponaztli (an ancient Aztec drum), has wooden protrusions (tongues) which are struck with drumsticks to produce the sound. Simple musical instruments you can make. (1) African tongue drum. (2) Bamboo flute. (3) Thumb piano. Make a pair of painted gourd maracas. Holiday noisemakers. (1) Tom-tom drum. (2) Tuning fork rattle. (3) Watchman's rattle. How to make a set of chimes with pieces of copper plumbing tube tied into a wood frame. Photograph of low-noise drums made from wood, rubber, and linoleum. Drummer extraordinaire. Photos illustrate the construction of a Civil War era drum. Drum Synthesizer. Easy-to-build electronic device produces percussion sounds. Can be directly played by a drummer or be triggered by a programmabale rhythm box or sequencer. Emulates the sound of a snare drum, tom-tom, and gong. Est. cost: $20. How to make a bonker box, an oblong wooden box with a grooved surface that is played with padded sticks. Also called a tongue drum. Playing the bones. How to use dry beef bones as a rhythm-making musical instrument. Make your own drum. Simple musical instruments fashioned from recyclables. (1) Rubber-band guitar. (2) Oatmeal box drum with wooden drumsticks. (3) Xylophone made from metal pipes. (4) Water-glass chimes. Electronic rhythm drum accompanyment for electronic guitar. Est. cost: $17. Drummer Boy, a variable speed digital counter that has 11 different ranges (from waltz to cha-cha) and simulates the sound of a bass drum, wood block, clave, conga, snare-drum or a combination. Est. cost: $55. Percussion instrument synthesizer can reproduce the musical triangle, bell and drum. Changes in resistor values result in change in sound. Build Cabonga, an electronic percussion synthesizer. Part 1. Played like a bongo drum, it simulates sounds from brass drum to wood block. Est. cost: $33. Build Cabonga. Part 2. How to use various accessories to achieve greater flexibility. Electronic drum circuits replace the fragile piezo sensor with a more durable ceramic disc capacitor. Audio circuits for the musician. (1) Reverberation made simple. Piezo reverb unit incorporates a large metal coil spring from a child's toy microphone. (2) Swiss-army knife circuit can be used to directly tune an instrument by ear, to listen for a beat frequency, or to check the accuracy of a tuning fork. (3) One-chip equalizer circuit that furnishes bass, midrange, and treble control to an audio input. (4) Electronic bongo circuit that produces the sound of practically any percussion instrument. Make a wooden "tongue drum" that uses the African pentatonic scale. It can be played with a mallet or hands like a bongo. Overall dimensions: 22"x11"x8" tall. Build a programmable electronic drum set. Part 1. Use it along with a hi-fi set to produce sounds that simulate a bass, tom, conga, snare, clave, and a wood block. The rhythm and pattern can be stored and played back. You can also program unusual time signatures, bridges, and introductions. Est. cost: $80. Build a programmable electronic drum set. Part 2. Build this polytonic percussion synthesizer. Part 1. Simulate congas, bongos, wood blocks, and timpani. Trigger manually or with special circuits. Powered by two 9-volt batteries. Est. cost: $60. Build this polytonic percussion synthesizer. Part 2. Three accessories will simulate gongs, bells, and all the various types of drums. Build this polytonic percussion synthesizer. Part 3. Two accessories. (1) Snare drum and cymbal generator. (2) 3-channel, 8-bit trigger-pattern generator. The Drum, a percussion synthesizer. Part 1. A four-channel synthesizer consisting of four type-5700 percusion modules. Estimated cost: $280. The Drum, a percussion synthesizer. Part 2. Full construction details plus a description of the operating controls. Disco King rhythm unit produces the standard disco beat plus three variations. Doubles as a base drum synthesizer. Clackers, a homemade percussion instrument made from oak 2x2 joined with cotton webbing. Handmade rhythm instruments from Africa, South America, and Central America are made from coconuts and gourds. Tom-toms are made in a variety of sizes from cardboard, heavy brown wrapping paper and embroidery hoops. Four musical instruments made from wood, leather and bells: a xylophone, a drum, hand bells and a rasp. Musical tone box. Wooden box with dovetailed corners has wooden "tongues" of various lengths cut in the top. These tongues are hit with a leather-wrapped mallet to play this unique wooden drum. How to build an ashiko-style drum. How to make a Persian drum. An advanced wood turning project. Homemade tambourine features a steamed wooden hoop, rawhide drumhead, and sheet metal castanets. Bongo box, an ancient musical instrument that is played by striking the different sized wooden tongues. Box drum (tongue drum, slit drum, bongo box) is built from wood. | |||||||||
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