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Musical instruments that are made or adapted from objects designed for other purposes. Pages in category "Improvised musical instruments" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. [1]
Iner Souster (born in 1971) is a builder of experimental musical instruments, visual artist, musician, fauxbot designer and film maker who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Souster builds most of his instruments from trash, found, and salvaged materials. Some of his instruments are one-string string instruments, or thumb pianos. One of his ...
The Hang uses some of the same basic physical principles as a steelpan, but modified in such a way as to act as a Helmholtz resonator. [7] The creation of the Hang was the result of many years of research on the steelpan and other instruments. [8]
The paldong is used for serenades, courting women, for leisure and to pass the time. Melodies are mostly improvised. The song titles describe what the melody is trying to mimic, such as the chirping of a bird, the cry of an eagle, the buzz of a wasp, etc.
A violin built with materials from the Cateura landfill became part of the Dimitri Foundation's Musical Instruments Museum in Verscio, Switzerland. [18] In December 2009, the Recycled Orchestra of Sounds of the Earth received the Tomás Moro Award from Our Lady of the Assumption University's Tomás Moro Institute. [19]
Some researchers slot it as an improvised version of a primitive instrument played in the Mesopotamian times (1600–900 B.C.) [3] Sufi mystics used it as an accompaniment to their hymns. [ citation needed ] In Indian santoor playing, the specially-shaped mallets ( mezrab ) are lightweight and are held between the index and middle fingers.
The frottoir, also called a Zydeco rub-board, is a mid-20th century invention designed specifically for Zydeco music. It is one of the few musical instruments invented entirely in the United States and represents a distillation of the washboard into essential elements (percussive surface with shoulder straps).