musical instruments

Presents an introduction to string instruments, in simple text with illustrations, exploring the different ways music can be made when strings are plucked of played.

Presents an introduction to the different things one can bang to make music, in simple text with illustrations, including information on drums, cymbals, a xylophone, and a triangle.

Build over 50 folk instruments to shake, rattle, pluck, and bang.

A primary prelude to drums, including what the percussion instruments look and sound like, basic instructions on how to play them, and the kinds of music that feature them.

Traces the history of the orchestra and discusses the musical instruments that make up the various orchestral families.

Presents color-illustrated profiles of musical instruments from around the world, arranged by family, describing their origins, evolutions, and how they are played; and also provides a history of music-making itself, discussions of the most famous players, and a guide to famous orchestras and concert halls.

Discusses the history of handmade music and the new movement reviving this practice, with nine step-by-step projects to make guitars and accompaniments, like the washtub bass, soup can diddly bow, stomp box and washboard.

Presents sixty-seven projects for making musical instruments with ordinary objects, with illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and an audio CD featuring the sounds of the instruments.

Spine title: First book of music. An introduction to all aspects of music from listening to sounds and making simple instruments to dancing, performing, and composing. Includes advice on choosing an instrument.