unusual instruments
Remember.. avoid novelty! But by the same token, only half of music can be written out on paper. Tone and Texture are just as important as Pitch and Rhythm.
how to make a thumb piano: http://www.instructables.com/id/Instant-Thumb-Piano%3a-How-to-make-a-set-screw-lamel/
drum on a bent sawblade
glass harmonica (inlaid bowls along a spinning shaft)
syringe (plastic tip, not needle tip.. can work like a slide whistle. maybe saw off part of the tip to make it a bigger opening). or, by the same token, a bicycle pump.
air let out of a balloon, rub a balloon, pop a balloon, pop a balloon under water, let air out of a baloon.. into a trumpet!
Djura Gaida - kinda like a bagpipe, but more unusual.
drum on water (put down a tarp or a towel or something)
nose flute (cheap and plastic!)
Kinnor (a little less unusual, but a beautiful sound)
the blue man group made a keyboard and drum machine that are pretty cheap (used??) and cool for circuit bending, perhaps!
make a bagpipe out of a plastic bag: tape it all shut, and put in 2 recorders (one drone, one to be played) in the bottom and a tube for blowing through in the top.
and interesting pattern could be burned into trace on a PCB and used as the interface for something electronic. consider this for the cloth sound board.
A tongue drum. Easy to make (just cut into some nice wood with a jigsaw, sand down and voila!).
Spokes on a bike.. could be cut to various lengths and bowed (with the tire removed, of course).
an actual ratchet (as opposed to a wooden or plastic one.. or perhaps one of that style, made with tuned metal.. like a music box)
A hollow Güiro with an opening that may be covered/uncovered to change the resonant pitch (like opening and closing a mouth as you drum on it).
put a mouthpiece on vinyl tubing (really long would look cool) and a funnel (or traffic cone) on the other end as a bell: vinyl trumpet! Don't forget to mute it with something cool.
any instrument that contains water (ie: rubbing a glass) can have it's pitch changes by sucking the water out through a tube, into one's mouth.
one of those beer hats can be gurgled through...
how to make a thumb piano: http://www.instructables.com/id/Instant-Thumb-Piano%3a-How-to-make-a-set-screw-lamel/
drum on a bent sawblade
glass harmonica (inlaid bowls along a spinning shaft)
syringe (plastic tip, not needle tip.. can work like a slide whistle. maybe saw off part of the tip to make it a bigger opening). or, by the same token, a bicycle pump.
air let out of a balloon, rub a balloon, pop a balloon, pop a balloon under water, let air out of a baloon.. into a trumpet!
Djura Gaida - kinda like a bagpipe, but more unusual.
drum on water (put down a tarp or a towel or something)
nose flute (cheap and plastic!)
Kinnor (a little less unusual, but a beautiful sound)
the blue man group made a keyboard and drum machine that are pretty cheap (used??) and cool for circuit bending, perhaps!
make a bagpipe out of a plastic bag: tape it all shut, and put in 2 recorders (one drone, one to be played) in the bottom and a tube for blowing through in the top.
and interesting pattern could be burned into trace on a PCB and used as the interface for something electronic. consider this for the cloth sound board.
A tongue drum. Easy to make (just cut into some nice wood with a jigsaw, sand down and voila!).
Spokes on a bike.. could be cut to various lengths and bowed (with the tire removed, of course).
an actual ratchet (as opposed to a wooden or plastic one.. or perhaps one of that style, made with tuned metal.. like a music box)
A hollow Güiro with an opening that may be covered/uncovered to change the resonant pitch (like opening and closing a mouth as you drum on it).
put a mouthpiece on vinyl tubing (really long would look cool) and a funnel (or traffic cone) on the other end as a bell: vinyl trumpet! Don't forget to mute it with something cool.
any instrument that contains water (ie: rubbing a glass) can have it's pitch changes by sucking the water out through a tube, into one's mouth.
one of those beer hats can be gurgled through...
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