Making Music: How to Create and Use XX Homemade Musical Instruments

by John Langstaff

Tune up a milk carton guitar and get ready for a kitchen concerto in the key of utensils major! Ann Sayre Wiseman and John Langstaff offer dozens of ideas that encourage children to unlock their musical creativity using everyday objects. Kids will be inspired as they turn a shower hose into a trumpet or pair zippers and Velcro to make their own percussion ensemble. With ideas for creating and playing more than 70 basic rhythm, string, wind, and keyboard instruments, the musical possibilities are endless. 

80 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2003

About the author

John Meredith Langstaff

Reviews

[Beth]

Great book for those who want to make musical instruments with children.

[Jennifer]

I picked up this book from a table of "Help Yourself" books at a park clean-up day (Friends of Ramsay Park, in Boston). I frequently make musical instruments with church Sunday school kids and this book offers some fun ideas for kid-friendly crafts. It also has the instructions for making a wooden xylophone, something I'd love to do someday.