I remember a bright moment from my childhood: "The Snowstorm" Sviridov is performed by a musician on a broomstick. On the real broom, but with strings. Such a "metlohord" blinded from what was, our violin teacher.
In fact, in the presence of hearing it is not so difficult to make such musical instruments with your own hands. Let's start with the simple. Percussion - for inspiration go to the kitchen.
Even a baby can make a shaker. To do this, you need: a capsule from kinder surprise, a small amount of manna, buckwheat or other cereals. Pour the cereal into the capsule, close it and seal it with tape for reliability. The sound dynamics depend on what kind of grits will boom inside the shaker.
Sounding glasses
One of the most fabulous handmade musical instruments is the xylophone of glasses. We arrange the glasses in a row, pour water and adjust the sound. The water level in the vessel affects the pitch: the more water, the lower the sound. Everything - you can safely play and compose music! There are three secrets of playing on glasses: choose glasses from thin glass, wash your hands thoroughly before playing, and when playing, barely touch the edges of the glass with your fingers dipped in water.
Grandfather and modern recipes
For materials for the pipes we go to nature: we need reeds, reeds (or another tubular plant) and bark (or bark, dense leaves). "Tubule" must be dried. Using a knife, we make a flat area on the sidewall and cut a small rectangle on it. Cut a rectangular tongue out of birch bark, with one end making thinner. Adhesive tape attach the tongue to the tube and slightly turn down. If you wish, you can add a few holes on the pipe.
The American version of the pipe - a tool from the cocktail tube. As the base we take a tube with a bend. Spread out its smaller part with your teeth. Then scissors cut off the edges of the pieces of the upper part: the angle should be at the middle of the edge of the tube. The angle should not be too large or small, otherwise the pipe will not sound.
Detailed instructions for making a pipe here - How to make a pipe?
Castanets from the coin
For a real Spanish tool, we need: rectangles of colored cardboard measuring 6x14 cm (4 pieces), and 6x3.5 cm (2 pieces), 4 large coins and glue.
Large rectangles fold in half and glue in pairs. From each of the small strips we glue the ring (for the thumb). Inside the rectangle on each of the opposite sides, glue on the coin, at a distance of 1 cm from the edge. When folding the cardboard castanets, the coins should touch.
Percussion musical instruments do it yourself
A ceramic flower pot with a diameter of 14 cm, a few balloons, plasticine, sushi sticks - that's what you need for a children's drum.
Cut off the neck from the ball and stretch the rest on the pot. Hole at the bottom of the pot can be covered with clay. The drum is ready, it remains to make sticks. To do this, we attach a ball of plasticine, previously frozen, to sticks from sushi. Cut off the lower part of the balloon and stretch it on a plasticine ball. A rubber band from the top of the ball will help pull this design.
However, musical instruments do not have to do it yourself. Listen to the music of the streets, and you will discover the music of garbage cans, pots, hoses and even brooms. And on these subjects, you can also play interesting music, as do the guys from the team "STOMP".
The author - Alexandra Ramm
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