Friday’s Recycled Instrument: Xylophones
Xylophones Xylophones are actually a set of instruments — a row of narrow boards tuned to single notes, rather like a set […]
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Friday’s Recycled Instrument: Making Your Own Banjo
To make a banjo, you’ll need a piece of hardwood for the neck, and some scraps of plywood or any boards for […]
Friday’s Recycled Instrument: Making A Box Drum
Everybody should know how to make a box. When I do instrument-building workshops for adults, I am invariably amazed and horrified at […]
Making Guitars in A Malawi Refugee Camp
L.G. Patron lives in the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi, a complex of shelters and dwellings that has housed refugees from several […]
Friday’s Recycled Instruments: A Bass Kalimba
Here’s how it goes: Step 1: Make a box. If you can locate a discarded chest of drawers, you can use that. […]
Friday’s Recycled Instruments: The First Musical Instrument I Ever Made…
….was in 1970 or thereabouts. I was 12. I’d seen a jug band perform and was deeply impressed with the washtub bass […]
Wind Energy Isn’t The Only Kind You Can Get!
While there are plenty of raw materials for instrument-making which have come under threat from climate change and environmental destruction (tropical hardwoods, […]