Linsey Pollak, very entertaining

The Garden Instrument Contest is now over and all of the entries are in. Please read through the submissions below, pick your favorite instrument, and vote!
Entry #1: Ranjit’s “Trumpet Marine”

I wanted to do a sound sculpture for the Figment Festival, which is held on Governors Island, a former military base in New York [...]

Dennis Havlina, an instrepreneur from Michigan, runs a website full of music resources and information about DIY musical instrument projects including construction details and instructions.

Instruments in the video above, in order of appearance:
-3 string cookie-tin banjo.
-A propane tank “Tambiro”
-Fiddle Hurdy Gurdy combo
-4-string wash-tub bass.
-Hardanger fiddle conversion
-Shower-curtain rod flute
-Old guitar to Octave Mandolin conversion

Above: Homemade PVC [...]

Here’s a curious percussion machine created by yaaaratheone for a Physical Computing class at Union College, NY.

To liven up the dull moments of living on the Antarctic ice, ANSMET scientists and engineers built a didgeridoo out of H2O and butter! Instead of the usual game of “counting the number of grains in a teaspoon of snow,” ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites) pursued the mission of building a didgeridoo.

After several failed [...]

The Japanese magazine, Science for Adults (Otonanokagaku), has some absolutely astonishing musical instrument kits including this miniature pipe organ.

Songs are programmed into a paper card which controls the organ’s airflow as it is fed through the instrument. Extra punch cards can be downloaded and printed here and a video of “Amazing Grace” is watchable [...]