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Making Simple Musical Instruments: A Melodious Collection of String, Winds, Drums and More
 
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Making Simple Musical Instruments: A Melodious Collection of String, Winds, Drums and More (Hardcover)

by Bart Hopkin (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Lark Books,U.S. (19 Oct 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0937274801
  • ISBN-13: 978-0937274804
  • Product Dimensions: 26.1 x 22.5 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 686,761 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Written for the novice and the accomplished musician, this book provides illustrated plans for building many familiar instruments, including a flute, guitar and hand drum, from unconventional materials, such as plastic tubing, polystyrene foam and heavy cardboard tubing. There are also designs for less familiar instruments, such as an ocarina, a cuica and a bowed psaltery.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational and fun, 28 Jun 2000
Loads of plans for home-made musical instruments, from simple drums and spoons to wooden saxophones and bowed psalteries. Accompanied by clear and easy-to-follow instructions and pictures. It's a very practical-minded book, often discussing where things may go wrong or how one could go about simplifying something or avoiding some common problem. Hopkin inspires confidence, in the sense that it is obvious that he has tried building most of these things and that he knows where the problems lie for the inexperienced builder.

It should also be noted that he manages to avoid the "seventies" trap of saying "Invent your own scale and your own melodies to play", which is far too common in books of this kind. Instead he advises how one goes about placing fingerholes and cutting pipes to make instruments that are able to sound in tune with each other.

This is the hands-on book, and it has a more theoretical counterpart in "Musical Instrument Design". I have them both, and recommends them both to anyone who is interested in weird sounds and homemade scrap.

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