musical instruments

Instructions for making percussion, wind, and stringed instruments from simple materials such as cartons, rubber bands, pop bottles, flower pots, and wood scraps.

Instructions for making and playing percussion, wind, and stringed instruments.

A young musician describes the instruments of the school band and the experience of participating in the rehearsals and the spring concert.

Chapters explain and illustrate such instruments as the acoustic guitar, the electric guitar, keyboards and synthesizers and also discusses amplification, PA systems, playing live and recording.

Discusses how the various musical instruments produce sound and describes how records, tapes, and disks are made and how the playback equipment for them generates sound waves.