Rarely does an instrument’s form match up with it’s sound as perfectly and whimsically as the daxophone’s. Invented by Hans Reichel of Germany, the daxophone is a friction idiophone who’s vibrating mechanism is an oddly but tactically shaped wooden tongue which is attached to a block of wood. The vibrations travel from the [...]

Sweet! This project is totally doable with household materials (printer, paper, thicker paper, white glue, scissors, and a razor edge). Just print out these paper parts, fold, cut, glue, and after 3 hours (including drying time) you will have a playable train whistle. I used regular printer paper for the bellows and [...]

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.