Today, many are interested in how to make musical instruments with your own hands. Of course, the master will not succeed in making a violin or piano without special training, materials, fixtures at home for an unprepared for this type of activity. And this is a fact that should be accepted unconditionally. But how to make fairly simple musical instruments with your own hands - our article will tell about those who are interested.
Where to find the source material for crafts
Any item from which sound can be extracted is musical. And that’s practically all that surrounds us! If you carefully follow the one-year-old babies, it will become clear: the back of the iron bed, when they hit it with a spoon, emits a melodic ringing similar to the sound of a metallophone. And if you knock wooden spoons on the table and chairs, you get an amazing likeness of a drum kit.
It turns out that we are surrounded by solid musical instruments! With your own hands you only need to decorate them in the right way, put them in one place and put the "musician" next.
Gift drummer
For example, a great drum kit comes from a set of pots, lids and wooden sticks. As the latter, pencils, wooden spoons, brushes are suitable. You can also carve special sticks for a beginner drummer from a tree.
As you can see from the photo, making such percussion musical instruments with your own hands is quite simple. For beauty, you can even come up with a special logo and decorate every item with it. Metal plates mounted on a stand are suitable for “plates”. By the way, next to the pots metal buckets, mugs, bowls, basins will coexist wonderfully. The main thing in this business is to pick up containers of various sizes that are capable of emitting different sounds.
Spoon Tool
Everyone knows such a Russian folk instrument as spoons. Even solo numbers are practiced, where performers manage to perform quite interesting compositions.
It is possible to expand the possibilities of musician spouses by creating an entire installation for them. For her, you need a wooden nesting doll. By arranging them in increasing volume, you can get an excellent installation tool.
It is recommended to glue a piece of sandpaper on one of the spoons. This will increase the range of sound, make the instrument more interesting for the game.
DIY Guiro
Skilled wood masters can make quite professional musical instruments. DIY rattles are also of interest to musicians today.
Initially, guiro were made from the fruit of a gorlovka tree on which notches were made. His place of origin is considered to be Latin America. Modern guiro - musical instruments, made with their own hands from a wooden array with notches, which should be led by a scraper called "pua". The musician thus extracts interesting chirping sounds, accompanying singing or performing his part in the orchestra.
Today, these kinds of musical instruments appear, made by hand from metal or plastic tubes. In Russia, the analogs of guiro were rattles made of wooden planks with notches.
Maracas, Shakers - Rattles
You can make musical noise instruments with your own hands from a variety of capacities. For crafts, metal coffee cans, plastic bottles of yogurt, egg boxes of Kinder-surprises, wooden caskets, and even inner cylinders from paper towels or cardboard toilet paper are suitable. Only the latter need to be sealed at both ends so that you can put something there. They make a shaker out of two disposable cups, gluing them together with adhesive tape.
To create a sound effect, cereal, sand, small pebbles, beads, shot, buttons are placed inside the container. You can attach pens to round containers, paint them with acrylic paints. Then you get very beautiful musical noise instruments, which you can make with your own hands from improvised materials.
Castanets
Children are very fond of making a variety of crafts together with adults. DIY musical instruments can also be made at home.
You can make castanets using two large buttons, to which the loops are attached. These devices are worn on the thumb and middle finger. A knock castanets when they touch and a sound is extracted.
From completely unnecessary things prepared for removal to the trash, you can make quite interesting crafts. Do-it-yourself musical instruments are created by gluing covers on cardboard pieces, after which the workpieces must be fastened together, folding them perpendicular to each other.
Tambourine
Often in children's musical instruments there are bells and bells that ring beautifully. You can hang them on an empty cylinder from paper towels or along the edges of disposable plates fastened together. Folding the latter is best asymmetrically.
Having painted brightly made instruments in this way, you can use them in a noisy children's orchestra.
Whistles and pipes
It is easy and simple to make children's musical instruments with their own hands, which produce sounds when the performer blows in them. They are made from hollow stalks of blades of grass, bark of twigs, plastic pens, and tubes from cocktails. If the latter are cut diagonally at different lengths, then you can get whistles that make a different sound.
Whistles are also obtained from the pods of beans, peas or acacia. In childhood, everyone at least once, but "played" on such a musical instrument.
Craftsmen make wood pipes, cutting holes in the hollow tubes. But here special skill is required. No less difficult - and so interesting! - make a toy whistle from clay or salt dough. Usually here they use the option of a “Dymkovo” toy. Although you can do a little thing by hiding inside a ready-made whistle. Having made several of these toys that make sounds of different heights, you can even play some tunes on them.
You can make homemade musical instruments with your own hands from virtually nothing. For example, a plastic bottle cap, on which a piece of rubber is pulled out, cut from a bursting balloon, will become a fascinating toy for a child.
You can use empty bubbles as a whistle. If you blow from top to bottom in the inlet, applying the container only to the lower lip and holding it vertically, you can make amazing sounds! Musicians change the inclination of the “instrument”, the distance between the lips and the opening of the bubble, the power of blowing air, and various melodies are born into the light.
"Litrofon", or "singing bottles"
Today, more and more performers come on the scene with such interesting instruments that only you wonder! And from which only they do not make them! You can make unusual musical instruments with your own hands, for example, from bottles or wine glasses, filling them with water.
Different heights of the sounds produced are achieved due to the amount of liquid poured, the material for making dishes, and changes in the volume of the container. The less water is poured, the finer the sound. For beauty and convenience, the liquid is tinted.
Harp, or "musical comb"
Taking the usual flat comb ("hedgehog" does not fit), you need to cover the location of the teeth with foil or tissue paper. By blowing into this simple instrument, you can make funny rattling sounds.
Talented musicians from the scenes perform various musical compositions on the harpe, even classical ones. This tool is especially interesting, made of a comb with different tooth thicknesses.
The main theme of “Polonaise” by Oginsky or the melody of a folk song / hit come out surprisingly similar to the original!
DIY guitar
This is truly amazing! But to do it yourself from improvised materials, or simply from trash, you can even guitar.
Closed cardboard boxes, empty flat plastic shampoo bottles are taken as the basis. Of course, the sound of the instrument will depend on the material used to make the guitar frame and the size of the hole cut out in it.
It is also important to choose the right guitar strings. Most often they take stationery or aviation gum and pull them with different strengths.
So now you don’t need to run to the children's toy store if the kid is capricious. After all, you can simply make an exciting toy for him - a musical instrument that will become the most beloved and dear thing for a child.