How to Make Homemade Instruments - Is there a DIY Website with Instrument Building Plans?

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How to Make Homemade Instruments - Is there a DIY Website with Instrument Building Plans?

Answer 1

What kinds of instruments do you plan on making at home? Some of them are too complex as they involve strings (guitar), complex bulk (piano) or intricate metal (saxophone).



One of the simplest homemade instruments is the Xylophone. It's a percussion instrument and can be built using common hardware tools and hardwood pieces. If this is the kind of instrument you want to build then Jim McCarthy's site is a popular place for homemade xylophone plans:



http://xylophone.annics.com



Start with something simple, like a box-resonated xylophone, before attempting more complex builds.

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Answer 3

Looks like there are quite a few instrumens you can make.



Free Musical Instrument Plans - Build A Bluegrass-Style 5 ...

Free Musical Instrument Plans - Build A Bluegrass-Style 5-String Banjo , Building A Celtic Harp, Guitar, Erlan's Music Stand, The Clave

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Building Musical Instruments - WannaLearn.com

Instrument Projects - illustrated guides and plans for building several instruments out of easily-found materials, including a PVC Clarinet in A3, PVC Flutes in Bb4, C5 ...

http://www.wannalearn.com/.../Building_Musical_​Instruments - Cached

Musical Instrument Plans - lute, guitar, dulcimer and psaltery

Plans for woodworkers to build good quality instruments; lute, guitars, dulcimers, psalteries.

http://www.art-robb.co.uk/plans.html - Cached

G.A.L. Instrument Plans - Guild of American Luthiers homepage ...

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Stringed Musical Instruments and Plans - Liutaio Mottola ...

Its big radius fingerboard makes it a pizzicato-only instrument. As a Savart style instrument, the Canotto bass is very easy to build. Full size paper plans for this ...

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16 Free Musical Instrument Plans: Strings, Wind and Percussion |

Also see 11 Free Guitar Plans, 20 Guitar Building Jigs and 35 More Resources for Newbie Luthiers >> 3 Free Wind Instrument Plans Wind instruments seemed to be the least ...

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mudcat.org: plans for instrument building?

Subject: plans for instrument building? From: chet w. Date: 18 Nov 98 - 09:02 PM Does anyone know a source for plans for musical instrument builders?

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7599 -

Answer 4

A rubber band harp is pretty easy. Hammer a few nails into a piece of wood, stretch a few different length rubber bands between them, and you're done.