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Tips & tricks for making your own instruments

 

This page does not have tutorials because a good tutorial has all the trouble-shooting you might need, and I haven't got the patience to type all that in.  I'd rather meet you on zoom, where you can show me the problem and I can hear it.  Send me an email if you'd like to meet.

 

 

How to use an electronic tuner

Musical scales, for non-musicians

 

Making a flute

Make an easy fipple flute

Holes and fingering for a reed with no keys

 

Tuning tines (e.g. for a kalimba)

Tuning bars for a xylophone (including marimbas)

Placing and tuning holes for a woodwind

Tuning Helmholtz resonators for a marimba


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