Car Music Project for Ford Focus Ad
While this may be more than you'd want to tackle, I think it makes a point that an instrument can be made from just about anything.
Bret
Hart's Homesmade Instruments
The great thing about a homemade or unfamiliar instrument is
that no one can accuse you of playing it improperly. Some instruments
vaguely Asian in heritage.
Coppers and Brass
It sounds better than it looks; and it looks better than you'd
expect. These pages are focused on building musical instruments
out of, let's say, "modest" materials like plumbing
pipe.
Experimental Musical
Instruments
An organization devoted to unusual musical sound sources. For
the older, more inventive student.
Gametone
Homemade Gamelan Instuments
These are my homemade instruments, the purists among you will
notice that they have little to do with traditional gamelan instruments.
But their sound when played brings gamelan music to my mind.
Guitar Building
In this MIT class, students learn about physics principles by examining the physics responsible for producing music with electronic stringed instruments, while building, testing, and playing their own electric guitar.
Making
a Clay Didjeridu with Barry Hall
Clay makes an excellent material for didjeridus (and many other
musical instruments as well). Although fired clay is rigid, and
even brittle, compared to other materials like wood, it is also
very resonant and has some unique acoustical properties that
work well for didjes.
Our
Bass Marimba
For about $350 and a lot of work you can build a bass marimba
similar to $40,000 ones on the market. Site also features other
instruments for Orff music teachers.