INSTRUMENTARIUM

This page is a portal to the collection of instruments that I have designed and built. Click on any of the instrument names below for descriptions, sound clips and photos. The word (new) following a name indicates that this instrument has been added to the collection within the last year. Those appearing in bold italics are either special favorites of my own or ones that others have found particularly interesting; you might enjoy checking these out first.

The categorization of the instruments on this page is a non-rigorous one loosely following the natural groupings of my own instrument-making practice. For more on the nerdy but interesting topic of musical instrument classification systems, see here.

Winds

Breath Flute
’Moe
Sorry-Ass Organ
Keyboard Memreed (new)
’Moe Flute
Spomo
Big Memreed
Wooden Saxes
Periodic Snip Flute
Slide Memreed
Ostrich Ocarina
Outrageous Trombone Bell
Moe-Mem
Dual Slide Whistle
Alphorn
Long Memreeds
Spoko
Kelp Horn

Plosives & Aerophonic Oddities

Suction Pops
Siren
Stamping Tube Set
Branching Corrugaphone
Manual Stomp
5-Hulloo
Scraper Flute
Waffle Gurgle
Flute Gurgle Organ
Plosives

Lamellaphones

Airy-Air and Bari Airy-Air
Bus Stop K
…U…
Rattletine
Squeegy K
Hammertine 2
What-a-Shame
Square Boos
Striffertines
Bamboo Idiomount
Rattletine 3
Tin with Tines
Needs-a-Name
Combs
Mallet K
HHK
Slide Rattletine
Tines and Echoes
MiagoTrod
Polly
Why Scrape
Only Ten
Bowed T-Rods
T-Rod-On-Tine
Cíque
Rumba Boxes
Hammertine 4
Long Steel Friction Bands
Cat’s Face
Glass-On-Tine
The Other Side

Free Bars

Open DTF
Xylophones and metalophones
Dipping Chimes
Shimmery Chimes
Forest Vines DTF
North-South /East-West Chimes
Quarter Inch
Schmeary Glissary
Kick-a-Brick
Tangular ARC
Over-Under
Petaloom
Keyboard DTF
Scraper Chimes
Tubular Chimes, Altered

Bells, Forks, Gongs & More

Dansal 3
Kingso Hot or Cold
Pliffers
Dinosaur and Shaker Arms
Squash Bells and Forks
Flat Gongs
Spin Chimes
Dansal 1
Fork Bells
Those Other Gongs
Dabba Shakers

Lutes, Harps & Lyres

Aquaalt
Cubist Bass
Elastic Guitar
Twist Harp
Baritone Fretless
Tinfoil Bass
Icicles and Pop Ice
Wobble Steel Guitar
4-40
Extremely Handsome Dan (new)
Guitars with Adjustable Frets
Y-String Guitar
Floating Bridge Guitar
Deep Guitars
String Lattice Guitar
Slide Ice
Lifoam
Nice Noise
Rocking Stainless

Zithers

Minimal Clavier (new)
String Schmeary
Squiggly&Sinuous
The Noodles
Pepper Tailpieces
Stroked Zither
Narrow Trillium
Trillium Cluster
Handsome Dan
Megalyra-alt
Silver and Black
2+2+1
Mild Steel
Harmonochord
Half and Half
Flex Short Strings
Weighted Strings
Big Weights
Alt-Alt
Sticks in Strings
SSP Strings
Psalt Walter
2+1
Obtuse Trillium (new)

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