New Hampshire supplier makes handmade musical instruments accessible to all.
Learn how a mandola builder puts together this wonderful instrument. The mandola is larger than a mandolin and tuned to CGDA.
Instant Thumb Piano: How to Make a Set Screw Lamellaphone: This is a method to quickly and easily make a musical instrument capable of melodic percussion and noise experimentation. The thumb piano, known as a kalimba or mbira and by many other names, is a lamellaphone that uses plucked prongs called tongue…
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Follow these super-easy DIY musical instrument tutorials to create your own family band!
Creating a paper guitar is a wonderful way to teach children about how sound can be created and amplified, adding a fun and informative project to their craft curriculum. Everything you need to make a paper guitar can be found around the house or classroom, or can be purchased at any grocery store.
If you have a fascination with the miniature world, we have a treat for you. The artist behind Mozu Studios, based in Japan, creates stunning and extremely detailed miniature rooms. Every object created by the studio is handmade and lifelike, except for its size. The items, such as computers, chairs, and books, are made to be so small that all three of them could easily fit into your palm. The president of Mozu Studios, 21-year-old Kiyotaka Mizukoshi, has a serious passion for miniature art. The artist has been crafting since he was 11 years old and has seriously improved his skills over the years. "When I was 11, I was into building plastic models of Gundam. After that, I realized that I wanted to make something original and I started to make miniature works," he told Bored Panda.
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Welcome to Nisoria Musical Instruments! We make pentatonic and diatonic instruments that are rooted in our experience with music and pedagogy. The design of our products is modern, inspired by Waldorf art, while allowing the natural tone of the wood to come alive. This lyre has the following pentatonic tuning: d', e', g', a', b', d", e", g", a", b"/ re', mi', sol', la', si', re", mi", sol", la", si" You can naturally vary the tuning of the instrument within certain limits. You can listen to the lyre here: soundcloud.com/user-644266/10-string-ash-lyre All of our lyres are made of one piece of wood, selected for resonance, with no defects and structurally solid. This particular instrument is made of European Ash wood. Ash is often used for solid body musical instruments. The natural resonance of the wood results in a balanced tone that is sweet sounding, for defined lower notes to clear high notes. The heartwood of some Ash trees has nice dark-on-light stripes that resemble Olive wood. We use mostly this part of the timber that is not only beautiful but also dense and strong, which helps with the resonance of the instrument and the rigidity against the string tension. After we give the wood a general shape we achieve the unique texture of the instrument by carving all its surface with small radius gouges. We finish the instrument with a few coats of Shellac. We use natural colored shellac for our ash instruments which ads a yellow - orange layer of color to the brown hues of the wood. Naturally, wood grain and color vary with each instrument, each one being unique. We use only high quality parts. The tuning pegs, tuning keys and strings are made in Germany. ♦ ITEM DETAILS: ✔ European Ash wood ✔ Natural Shellac Finish ✔ Color range from light brown to dark brown ✔ Metal strings (plain steel and silver coated steel) ✔ Chrome tuning pins made by Rubner in Germany The instrument comes with a tuning key and a handmade textile bag. You will also receive instructions on how to tune the lyre. For more information after purchase you can contact us any time. ♦ PERSONALIZATION: We can engrave on your instrument: - name or initials - a quote, wishes or other text - a logo, image or clip art Please contact us for further details on personalization.
How to Make Bagpipes Out of a Garbage Bag and Recorders: This instructable is how to make a simple bagpipe like instrument out of basic household materials. Granted, it does not sound all too much like a bagpipe, but it works similarly and is fun to mess around with.
Lucy Schwartz, a talented singer/songwriter from Los Angeles, contacted me last year after seeing "Boxcar Fair", the music video I did with Brock Scott for his band Little Tybee. Lucy loved the look and feel of "Boxcar Fair" and also, to quote Lucy, "was entranced by it's magic". After talking a bit via email, she sent me her song "Time Will Tell". The song is about a young boy wondering about his future. He wants the future to happen now and the lesson is "take it slow", don't try to rush it. Lucy describes it this way - ".... it's important to pay attention to the journey, because if you don't, the best parts of life pass you by......the journey IS your life (I'm saying this advice mostly as a note to myself....but that's sort of the idea behind the song....)" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I have to say I've been so fortunate to collaborate with these incredibly talented people - first Brock Scott, a remarkable songwriter but also a talented visual artist and sculptor. And now Lucy Schwartz, equally amazing singer and songwriter who I had the pleasure of experiencing her creative perspective on life while she was here in Atlanta. We spent the good part of a day hanging out in my studio as she sculpted a small figure. I was showing her my approach to sculpting and I learned a bit of how her creative mind works. Never before have I realized what could come out of collaborating with another creative person. Sure there is always an end product but what one gains from another person's perspective is immeasurable. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ So in producing the video I knew we had to come up with a story to go along with the lyrics. We talked back and forth and came up with a story of a young boy walking around in the forest wondering about his future. He finds a magical mirror in which he sees his future love interest, a wind-up doll. He makes a wish to have this girl now and realizes his mistake when his wish comes true. A single marionette was create for the shoot. The boy plays several characters, facilitated by changes in his wardrobe. Here are some shots of the marionette in progress, including the changes we made to fit our look. The young boy's body is carved from basswood. He had to be fully functional with jointed arms legs and neck. Also I hollowed out his chest to make him as light as possible. I created 3 right hands, (and one left), so he could hold/carry various props. This actually worked out well. I could change out the hands quickly as they were simply held in with a small brass rod. Here I just finished sculpting is head from polymer clay. His body is all carved, painted, and ready to be dressed. All dressed and ready for the strings. The white shirt was from a collection of old doll clothes I bought a while back. I put it on him and it fit perfectly; this so rarely happens. I rolled up his sleeves so his arms could move. I also had the sweater and it fit perfectly too. The sleeves were already cut off and were used for a pair of socks on another figure a couple of years ago. I love how this outfit came together and I love this look. All dressed and strung for the first time. Lucy thought his skin tone was a bit too red - a bit sunburned - so I did a bit of repainting on his face. She also thought he looked a bit melancholy so I changed his mouth to give him more of a smile. She was right, he looks happier now. From the beginning, since we would be shooting the video in many parts and editing it together, I had this idea of using different eyes and eyebrows to give him different expressions. I painted eyes and eyebrows on a piece of black masking tape and below you can see one of my test with the eyebrows. The eyes before I cut them all out. We ended up using only 2 pairs; one regular and one downcast. I also created a closed eye look. The boy's father is mentioned in the song so there's a few scenes where he's dressed up as his father. This is the suitcase the father carries. Made from a block of wood, I hollowed this out as well. The pitcher he uses to water a flower. Lucy wears a key on her back - after all she is a wind-up doll. I made it out of wood and added strong magnets to the base. Here it's stuck to our refrigerator. She wore a thin metal plate inside her dress and the key stayed perfectly in place. Shots from the video shoot - it took 2 days to shoot the puppet and one day to shoot Lucy's part. The opening scene - we see him sitting on a rock staring at a lake deep in contemplation. Here he's watering a flower that he just planted. You can see the magical mirror behind him. Sometime getting the shot takes many people. The young boy walks down a path and comes upon the magic mirror for the first time. Beau Brown puppeteered on Day 1 of our shoot. Here we are getting the shot where the young boy dips his pitcher into a stream to get water for the flower. I'm moving the puppet's arm and Raymond Carr, our puppeteer for Day 2, is supporting the puppet's body. Andrew Kornylak is behind the camera; he served as our director of photography and location scout. The lovely Miss Lucy holding the young boy. This was taken after our last shot and the boy's expression reflects his feelings about his mistake. Lucy's hair and make-up by Kathleen Marsh. All in all this was a great experience for me; I learned a lot and loved working with Lucy and all the other folks who helped out on the shoot. Here is the video (added here 10/5/15) Watch full screen..... You can check out Lucy's music and other projects here. tom
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Traditional folk 12 - string instrument, known as the Baltic psaltery, along with the Latvian kokles, Estonian kannel, Finnish kantele, Russian gusli. Tonality - A4 Handmade, the case is made of solid wood, the soundboard is made of resonant wood. Packed in a soft, thin case, Sent in a tight, reliable box.
A guest blog post by Scarves for Troops coordinator, Elaine Campbell: “…When the Treasure becomes a Memory, the Memory becomes a Treasure…” It is with warm memories and a heavy heart th…
It wouldn't be October without Halloween, and it wouldn't be Halloween without some spooky music. There's no instrument spookier than a Theremin, which also happens to be one of the world's first elec...
The Sketch.inc for Lucie Kaas collection includes some of the greatest legends and icons within the fashion, art, music and cultural world. The collection grows each season with the dolls making their place in the world of designer collectibles. Materials – Schima superba Dimensions – Small: H 14.5 cm – Large: H 21.5 cm Design – Becky Kemp
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