Making Gourd Musical Instruments

Making Gourd Musical Instruments
Author: Ginger Summit
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781402745034

Provides step-by-step instructions for making, decorating, and playing more than sixty string, wind, and percussion instruments made from gourds, along with numerous color photos and cultural information on the instruments' places of origin.

Making Simple Musical Instruments

Making Simple Musical Instruments
Author: Bart Hopkin
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-02
Genre: Musical instruments
ISBN: 9781579900489

Using everyday items, a melodious collection of strings, winds, drums & more. Illus.

Making Gourd Dolls & Spirit Figures

Making Gourd Dolls & Spirit Figures
Author: Ginger Summit
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2007
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781402732201

"If you're an artist looking to explore a versatile medium or are interested in making dolls, look to nature's bounty. Learn a variety of classic techniques as you create projects. Comes with a gallery of inspiring work by talented artists."--adapted from back cover.

Historic Gourd Craft

Historic Gourd Craft
Author: Angela Mohr
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780764328305

What did Americas first inhabitants use for cooking and eating? What did the stranded characters of television's Gilligan's Island use to prepare and eat food? \nTaking her cue from these questions, author Angela Mohr demonstrates how to create authentic vessels by using gourds. A watering can, cooking utensils, and bowls are created in this step-by-step instruction book, as Mohr brings fun and authenticy to her gourds. \nHistorical re-enactors will find inspiration fhere for their authentic life-style performances and drama students, the rights tools to pursue their craft.

Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts

Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts
Author: Mickey Baskett
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2005-08
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781402727849

New in Paper With a simple gourd, it's easy to make an astonishing variety of bowls, boxes, baskets, pitchers, and dippers, as well as musical instruments and toys. Choose from the many inviting shapes, from the kettle to the canteen, the bushel basket to the snake. Carve, burn, wax, varnish, and color them with paints, dyes, oils, and markers to work their smooth, three-dimensional surfaces. Basic, time-tested techniques for making practical works of art show you how to grow, dry, and clean them, or where to buy gourds readymade for projects such as a child's elephant pull toy, planters, lamps, and birdhouses. "[A] collection of uncomplicated, step-by-step projects for...large gourds, which are fun to work with and readily available...a good selection."--Library Journal

Banjo Roots and Branches

Banjo Roots and Branches
Author: Robert B Winans
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2018-08-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0252050649

The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo's introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus. Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, Banjo Roots and Branches offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados. Contributors: Greg C. Adams, Nick Bamber, Jim Dalton, George R. Gibson, Chuck Levy, Shlomo Pestcoe, Pete Ross, Tony Thomas, Saskia Willaert, and Robert B. Winans.

Sound Designs

Sound Designs
Author: Reinhold Banek
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN:

This text has plans for 50 musical instruments, including over 100 drawings and photographs. It teaches the reader how to build their own musical instruments, using knowledge of a variety of diverse cultures from around the world. It includes instruments such as: oil drum gongs, thumb pianos, cowbells, tube drums and willow whistles. All necessary materials can either be purchased or found in nature or a junkyard.

Before Music

Before Music
Author: Annette Bay Pimentel
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2022-05-24
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1647006961

From award-winning author Annette Bay Pimentel comes an oversize nonfiction picture book exploring how music and musical instruments are made—across time and around the world Music doesn’t come out of nothing. It always starts somewhere . . . with something . . . with someone. Discover how music is made in this survey of musical instruments from around the world. Organized by material—from wood to gourds to found objects and more—Before Music marries a lyrical core text with tons of informational material for curious readers. In the narrative text, readers will encounter makers as they source their materials and craft instruments by hand, drawing the line from the natural world to the finished product and its sound. The sidebars offer much more to discover, including extensive instrument lists, short bios of musical innovators, and more.

Ada's Violin

Ada's Violin
Author: Susan Hood
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481430955

A town built on a landfill. A community in need of hope. A girl with a dream. A man with a vision. An ingenious idea.