Leaders:
nanonile and didgeridoo-fm
Join Policy: Open
Created on: 7 Feb 2012
Description:
Join Policy: Open
Created on: 7 Feb 2012
Description:
People who are interested to making music instruments and who make musical instruments.
Come to teach, come to learn and come to experience.
All kinds of regular and experimental stuff + Customing
Come to teach, come to learn and come to experience.
All kinds of regular and experimental stuff + Customing
Construction & Customing
The materials used in making musical instruments vary greatly by culture and application. Many of the materials have special significance owing to their source or rarity. Some cultures worked substances from the human body into their instruments.
In ancient Mexico, for example, the material drums were made from might contain actual human body parts obtained from sacrificial offerings. In New Guinea, drum makers would mix human blood into the adhesive used to attach the membrane.
Mulberry trees are held in high regard in China owing to their mythological significance-instrument makers would hence use them to make zithers. The Yakuts believe that making drums from trees struck by lightning gives them a special connection to nature.
Musical instrument construction is a specialized trade that requires years of training, practice, and sometimes an apprenticeship. Most makers of musical instruments specialize in one genre of instruments; for example, a luthier makes only stringed instruments. Some make only one type of instrument such as a piano. Some builders are focused on a more artistic approach and develop experimental musical instruments, often meant for individual playing styles developed by the builder himself. -wikipedia.
Notable instrument makers: Bartolomeo Cristofori, Gaetano Vinaccia, George Beauchamp, Leo Fender, Les Paul, Bill Ludwig, Hannu Saari, Johannes Link, Paul Tutmarc, Niccolo Amati, Antonio Stradivari, Ikutaro Kakehashi, Thaddeus Cahill, Serge Tcherepnin
Websites:
http://folktek.com/
http://www.thomann.de/gb/index.html
http://www.dglenn.org/defs/inst.html
http://www.agavendidgeridoos.de/
http://www.instrumentmaking.keithhillharpsichords.com/
http://stoneinstruments.com/
www.didgeridoomusik.de
The materials used in making musical instruments vary greatly by culture and application. Many of the materials have special significance owing to their source or rarity. Some cultures worked substances from the human body into their instruments.
In ancient Mexico, for example, the material drums were made from might contain actual human body parts obtained from sacrificial offerings. In New Guinea, drum makers would mix human blood into the adhesive used to attach the membrane.
Mulberry trees are held in high regard in China owing to their mythological significance-instrument makers would hence use them to make zithers. The Yakuts believe that making drums from trees struck by lightning gives them a special connection to nature.
Musical instrument construction is a specialized trade that requires years of training, practice, and sometimes an apprenticeship. Most makers of musical instruments specialize in one genre of instruments; for example, a luthier makes only stringed instruments. Some make only one type of instrument such as a piano. Some builders are focused on a more artistic approach and develop experimental musical instruments, often meant for individual playing styles developed by the builder himself. -wikipedia.
Notable instrument makers: Bartolomeo Cristofori, Gaetano Vinaccia, George Beauchamp, Leo Fender, Les Paul, Bill Ludwig, Hannu Saari, Johannes Link, Paul Tutmarc, Niccolo Amati, Antonio Stradivari, Ikutaro Kakehashi, Thaddeus Cahill, Serge Tcherepnin
Websites:
http://folktek.com/
http://www.thomann.de/gb/index.html
http://www.dglenn.org/defs/inst.html
http://www.agavendidgeridoos.de/
http://www.instrumentmaking.keithhillharpsichords.com/
http://stoneinstruments.com/
www.didgeridoomusik.de
Instrument Making’s Group Radio
Newest Members (3)
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ekesner
February 2012
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didgeridoo-fm
February 2012
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nanonile
February 2012
Recent Activity
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didgeridoo-fm added the article Do you know other didgeridoo freaks and fans? to this group. March 2012
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ekesner joined this group. February 2012
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nanonile connected Zimbabwe to the group Instrument Making. February 2012
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nanonile connected Taiwan to the group Instrument Making. February 2012
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nanonile connected Turkey to the group Instrument Making. February 2012
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nanonile connected United States to the group Instrument Making. February 2012
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nanonile unlinked French Guiana from Instrument Making. February 2012
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nanonile unlinked French Polynesia from Instrument Making. February 2012
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nanonile unlinked French Southern Territories from Instrument Making. February 2012
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nanonile unlinked Martinique from Instrument Making. February 2012
