Folk music instrument projects inspired by yesterday, made for today's urban folks.
This is a list of ever evolving home brew musical instrument projects. The aim here is to inspire average folk to make and create their own music. You'll find very little instruction here. These projects are intended as starting points for you to build your own personal musical instruments.
folk music project, folk music, urban folk music, folkurban, $5.00 Clarinet, toilet ocarina, Hardware store kora, toilet shekere, plastic fantastic sax, The Airhorn (Grocery Bag Reed), idiot flute, Home (Des)Pot Flute, PVC, plastic, uke, ukulele, synthstick, ribbon controller
The Compensated Nut: an illustrated article on fine-tuning guitars by compensating the nut, written by Stephen Delft.
guitar building, lutherie, luthery, string scale, compensation, intonation, temperament, guitar setup, luthier
Chuck's Chimes.
How to build and tune tubular wind chimes.
On this page I present what I think is the best information one will find on tubular wind chimes. Many years ago I started searching the web for information to build my own chimes. After finding a little bit of information I tried to build a set of chimes using copper tubing. Mostly they made noise but they sure didn't compare to expensive commercial chimes. A few years later I decided to give it another try. This time I found an equation to help me determine the length of a chime. I had not seen this equation before and being an engineer I set out on my current quest for more knowledge. On this page I present the information needed to make chimes that I think will be as good as or better than any of the expensive commercial chimes....
Antonio Stradivari
His Life and Work (1644-1737).
cellist, cello, violoncello, violin, strings, orchestra, classical, music, viol, gamba, bass, symphony
MIMForum Tool Store: tools for building acoutsic guitars, making electric guitars, and more.
Tools for guitar making, violin making and other forms of lutherie, woodwinds and brass, keyboards, experimental musical instruments; as well as acoustical physics and the physics of music.
tools, music, guitar building, guitar making, lutherie, recorder, flute, brass, keyboards
The Library of Congress has posted some sketches, mechanical drawings, and plans of folk and ethnic musical instruments including an oud, a Georgian tar, a zurna, a quanun, a dumbeg, and many more instruments....