Home made instruments
by Jason Hannah on Nov.24, 2009, under Music Outside The Box
If you want to talk about musical creativity, maybe one of the most outside-the-box ways of thinking you can find is creating your own musical instruments.
I’ve always thought the idea was incredibly fascinating, but to be honest, I’ve only done very simple things when it comes to instrument creation, and they’ve all been percussion-based things.
Some people, though, are creative, innovative, AND handy, and those kinds of people are the ones that can do some amazing things.
Check out this site I found. It’s called “Bret Hart’s Ho-made Instruments”
It looks like it’s an older site that hasn’t been updated for a while, but the site has some descriptions and diagrams of several of the instruments that the author has invented himself.
Here’s another site that has some diagrams and instructions for making your own instruments… some of them traditional instruments, but several of them unique variations of common instruments:
And if you really want to see some interesting stuff, search YouTube.
In fact, click HERE to link to my YouTube search for HomeMade instruments. There are all kinds of crazy things on there.
This just goes to show that if you want to make music you don’t have to have the high dollar guitars and pianos, and you don’t have to spend years taking lessons. You just have to be willing to try out your own crazy ideas!
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