It provides details on every step of the project. Percussion, wind and string instruments are all represented. Each project is illustrated with clear, instructional photographs.
Alternative techniques use simple tools to offer inexpensive ways to make instrument.
Tips on choosing materials, tool selection, cutting and finishing techniques, measuring, joining and more. Includes special hints for tuning and playing the instruments you have made. This book also.has a showcase of instruments by artists from around the world including Tai Hei Shakuhachi Flutes. Jay Havighurst has explored building musical instruments since graduating from the Studio for Interrelated Media and Sculpture at Massachusetts College of Art in 1980. A resident of the North Shore of Massachusetts, he designs interactive, kinetic sound art, including large-scale sculptures that combine abstract visual elements with themes of rhythm and cycles inspired by nature.