Ken Butler’s “hybrid instruments” - Axe, crossbow, and assault rifle violins? Shovel tablas, easel guitars, umbrella igils, and toothbrush violas? Oh my! Watch Ken put a mic in his mouth and play his entire face!

Instrument ridiculousness!

From Wouter Baeck, an amazing musician, sculptor, painter, and musical instrument creator.
“An ancient instrument came to live. Based on a thin long straight bamboo reed tied up with a thread on a small bamboo mouth piece. Protected by a gourd. Double pipe made out of bamboo or elder wood, and always with [...]

Check out this spectacular dual-chamber flute made by Avi:

This flute, handmade from Chinese yellow bamboo, is based on traditional Native American style flutes but with an upwards pointing resonating chamber extension. This flute has two blow holes, five finger holes, two sound chambers, and two birds. This flute’s voice is paralyzing to say [...]

A bin zasara (a.k.a. bin sasara, sasara) is a traditional Japanese percussion instrument. Due to the bin zasara’s self-vibrating nature, the instrument is classified as an idiophone. The instrument consists of many rectangular wooden slats, made from tonewood (wood that carries sound waves well e.g. maple, ceder, bamboo, walnut) strung together by some [...]

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 [...]

For those of you who enjoy diagrams, here is a great diagram off the systems in a traditional Native American flute.

From the diagram:
“From the mouth, the airflow is slowed down in the SAC (slow air chamber), passes the exit hole, then the little channel of the flue, to hit the cutting edge. Then the [...]