Show Me Your Homemade Instruments

[Kit Taylor]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DAFkkPKgpJI

This chap put out a challenge for people to make their own instruments, and has had about 150 responses so far. This one's wicked:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GJLcwIEWD9o

I'm reminded of the great Dan Reeder, who makes his own guitars and basses out of rubbish. Buy both his albums.

 

[Mark EJ]

There's some good flute instuctions here.

 

[Anex]

I like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAI3s3-4BHw

'2 sets of 8 strings above and below the center 4 strings. The center four strings are tuned to an open minor chord 1,3,5,1 The two groupings of open strings are tuned to a harmonic minor scale in the 5th mode. The resonator is 2 stacked FUJI film cannisters. The frame is branches from trees. The tuners are zither pins. The strings are different guages of music wire. Each string doubles through the frame back to the tuners to make 2 strings.'