{"id":40595,"date":"2022-12-12T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=40595"},"modified":"2022-12-06T13:06:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T20:06:34","slug":"diy-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/diy-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once a week we\u2019ll send out a page from Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities. The tools might be outdated or obsolete, but the possibilities they inspire are new.\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/toolsforpossibillities\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get Tools for Possibilities a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/revue\/items\/images\/018\/613\/507\/mail\/51LPPLkF51L.jpg?1666114201\" width=\"650\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Best DIY instrument how-to<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Here are&nbsp;<strong>three great guides for making your own musical instruments<\/strong>. Advantages of making your own: 1) Personalized, 2) Cheaper, 3) Types no one else sells, 4) Satisfaction of making. There is not much overlap of instruments featured between these three books. The coolest of the three guides is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/KoPZ4?utm_campaign=Tools%20for%20Possibilities&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Making Gourd Musical Instruments<\/strong><\/a>. It has very explicit step-by-step instructions for making 60 instruments using lightweight gourds as the sound amplifiers. Gourds enable wind, string and percussion instruments \u2013 so you could make an entire orchestra. This book has the most variety of musical options and great examples of world-wide traditional instruments for inspiration. If you can get only one of these three books, this should be it.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/revue\/items\/images\/018\/613\/534\/mail\/5100538QPYL.jpg?1666114363\" width=\"650\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/XV2y?utm_campaign=Tools%20for%20Possibilities&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Making Musical Instruments by Hand<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;is a good guide for making instruments from wood and wood veneers. Their builds are a little more complex resulting in instruments that may look more \u201cprofessional.\u201d They require a bit more skills and tools, although none out of the ordinary.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/revue\/items\/images\/018\/613\/556\/mail\/81HpSs0ZOUL.jpg?1666114490\" width=\"650\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>But if you are making your own instruments, why not make ones that have never existed before?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/FEFs?utm_campaign=Tools%20for%20Possibilities&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sound Designs<\/strong><\/a>, an older book, lays out helpful hints for making 50 different unorthodox instruments using salvage materials. It stresses innovative interpretations: how about oxygen bottles for bells, or electrical conduit xylophones? Its intent is to encourage you to not just make your own musical instruments, but to invent them as well.&nbsp;<em>\u2013 KK<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tools for Possibilities: issue no. 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2387],"tags":[2388],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40597,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40595\/revisions\/40597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}