Introduce the kids to some toy instruments they're sure to love -- a bleach-bottle banjo, garden-hose bugle, washtub bass, or flowerpot chimes. Or create your own authentic folk instrument: Renaissance psaltery, hammered dulcimer, teardrop fiddle, or Celtic harp. How to make all these projects is fully explained here, along with playing instructions and a fun collection.

Making Wood Folk Instruments

Arts & Photography

Waring, Dennis

Music

Music Sales Corp

Have a hankering for an Appalachian dulcimer? A Celtic harp? Anyone can make—and play—these great musical instruments. Make sophisticated versions out of wood, or fun and easy shoebox zithers and bleach bottle banjos. It’s simple to craft recorders, slide whistles, or percussive claves (rhythm sticks.) Here are instructions for, and color photographs of, more than 50 instruments that range from board xylophones to thumb pianos to hoop drums. Includes instructions for tuning, and advice on wood, tools, and glue.

Great Folk Instruments To Make & Play

Sterling

Corrugation music? As simple as putting a stick through a box and attaching nylon strings, but with a few more techniques, these fun-to-make cardboard instruments from around the world display remarkable sound quality. “A remarkable book. Ideal for any teacher or home-schooling parent as well as for creative older children who like to figure out how things work.”—Quick &amp; Easy Crafts.

Cool Cardboard Instruments to Make & Play

Sterling/Tamos

“Besides quality of production (it’s printed entirely on heavy paper stock and features full-color photos throughout), [the book] excels in the simplicity of its presentation: the instructions are logical and well detailed, and they promote use of common tools and easily acquired materials. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal.

Make Your Own Electric Guitar & Bass

Raymond, David

Randall, Thomas

Union Square & Co.

With a few techniques, these fun-to-make and fun-to-play instruments from around the world produce remarkable sound quality. Strum a homemade Middle Eastern Lute, or Oud; Chinese Moon Guitar; North Indian Sitar, Shoebox Zither, or Angle Harp. Or, try Australian Didgeridoos, Percussion Tubes, and more. You’ll be surprised what wonderful things start with an ordinary piece of cardboard.

Cardboard Folk Instruments to Make & Play

Children's Books

Making Drums

Irish drums, Latin drums, drums from the Middle East and India: whether they’re framed, staved, carved, or clay, the basics for making every one of them is here, provided by a master of the style. Photos colorfully display the culturally diverse drums and construction techniques in an easy-to-follow fashion, from choosing and attaching a drumhead to learning lacing logistics and knot-tying to working with hoops and adjustable hardware.

Humor & Entertainment

Irish drums, Latin drums, drums from the Middle East and India: whether they’re framed, staved, carved, or clay, the basics for making every one of them is here, provided by a master of the style. Photos colorfully display the culturally diverse drums and construction techniques in an easy-to-follow fashion, from choosing and attaching a drumhead to learning lacing logistics and knot-tying to working with hoops and adjustable hardware.

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Books by Waring, Dennis

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Making Wood Folk Instruments

Great Folk Instruments To Make & Play

Cool Cardboard Instruments to Make & Play

Make Your Own Electric Guitar & Bass

Cardboard Folk Instruments to Make & Play

Making Drums

Making Drums