This morning, to my pleasant surprise, I received an email full of wonderful instruments from the artist/sculptor Bruce Gray. I love it when this happens!
Hi Tyler,
I love your site, and thought I would send in some of my instruments and musical sculptures. The most elaborate one is still in progress, but here are [...]

The hurdy gurdy, also known as the “wheel fiddle,” is similar to the nyckelharpa in that it’s notes are summoned using a keyboard which controls tangents (wood wedges) that depress the strings at defined intervals. What is most interesting about this violin-type instrument is that the strings are vibrated by a resin wheel mechanism [...]

Speaking of animal musicians, The Thai Elephant Orchestra is just that. Composed of up to sixteen elephants, this wild group of musicians perform human-guided musical improvisations on enormous xylophones, harmonicas, drums, gongs and other instruments.

The animation below is a 4 minute music video featuring The Thai Elephant Orchestra’s music and paintings.

“Temple Music” from the [...]

Check out these whimsical illustrations from Scott Gustafson’s counting book Animal Orchestra.

Visit Scott Gustafson’s website here: scottgustafson.com
Source: mdolla

I found picture of an artwork made with real paper currencies awhile back while browsing Make: Blog. Originally from mdolla.com:

Do any of you know who created this artwork? or guess at what currencies he or she used?

The Oddstrument has received its first entry for the Garden Instrument Contest! I think you will find it quite inventive and odd. So as to not intimidate anybody I will post all of the entries simultaneously on the date of the contest deadline (September 01, 2008). You will then be able [...]