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Friday’s Recycled Instrument: Paper & Plastic Flutes & Oboes

Posted April 4, 2014November 27, 2015 Warren SendersLeave a commentPosted in Recycling

Paper tube flutes. Drinking-straw oboes. Drinking-straw panpipes. This video is misleading; the straws need to be closed at the bottom end to work.

Friday’s Recycled Instrument: Quick & Easy Kalimba

Posted March 14, 2014 Warren SendersLeave a commentPosted in Recycling

This extremely satisfying instrument can be made in less than 20 minutes. A random piece of not-too-thick board. In the photos it’s a piece of 3/8″ plywood that I had lying around, about 4 by 7 inches. A random piece of narrow wood that’s about as long as the board is wide. I had a […]

Friday’s Recycled Instruments: Meet Abu The Flute-Maker

Posted February 14, 2014February 13, 2014 Warren Senders1 CommentPosted in Recycling

Baltimore is lucky. One of the city’s local fixtures is a fascinating cat who goes by the name of Abu The Flute Maker. He started out life as William Emerson, growing up poor in West Baltimore and shifting homes from one relative to another. But by the mid-70s, he’d begun making instruments out of whatever […]

Friday’s Recycled Instruments: Miscellaneous Small Sound-Makers

Posted February 7, 2014February 6, 2014 Warren SendersLeave a commentPosted in Recycling

Here are some real simple instruments you can do without hassle: I found a discarded wicker laundry basket in the trash a few years ago. I took it to my shop and carefully disassembled it, saving the wicker pieces in a cardboard box. In a workshop the following year, my students cut the pieces into […]

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