George, Ron, editor and transcriber. "Building sound sculptures and musical instruments from found objects." Percussionist [Percussive Notes Research Edition] 18/3 (Summer 1981): 17-25. [A transcription of the PAS New Instrumental Resources Panel Discussions, Part I.]

Goodfellow, Robin. "Balloon boom." Experimental Musical Instruments 12/1 (September 1997): 24-25. [Instructions for building a tin can balloon drum.]

Küntzel, Tilman, and Margrit Kuntzel-Hansen. "Two generations of experimental musical instruments." Experimental Musical Instruments 12/1 (September 1996): 30-33. [Instructions for making instruments for children from materials at home.]

JOURNALS

Experimental Musical Instruments.A quarterly journal "for the design, construction and enjoyment of unusual musical sound makers." Published by Experimental Musical Instruments, P. O. Box 784, Nicasio, CA 94946. Phone/fax: (415) 662-2182. e-mail: ExpMusInst@aol.com. Web: http://www.thecombine.com/emi

BOOKS

Banek, Reinhold, and Jon Scoville. Sound Designs: A Handbook of Musical Instrument Building. Berkley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1980. (209 p. : Bibl., discog., photos, illus.) ISBN 0-89815-011-6. [Detailed descriptions and plans for making drums,wood blocks, a redwood marimba, gongs, and bells. Note: A review of the revised edition (212 p., ca. 1995) appears in Percussive Notes 34/4 (August 1996): 73]

Hopkin, Bart. Making Simple Musical Instruments: A Melodious Collections of Strings, Winds, Drums & More.[n.p.]: Lark Books, [1996] [Available from Experimental Musical Instruments, P. O. Box 784, Nicasio, CA 94946, ph: 415-662-2182.]

Madin, John. Make Your Own Wacky Instruments. Victoria, Australia: John Madin [P. O. Box 7082, Geelong West, Victoria 3218 Australia], 1997. (80 p.) [Plans for about 50 kid-buildable musical instruments--most are percussion aerophones. Review: Experimental Musical Instruments 13/1 (September 1997): 23]

Mandell, Muriel, and Robert E. Wood. Make Your Own Musical Instruments. New York: Sterling, 1957. ISBN 0-8069-5022-6; 0-8069-5023-4; LCCN 57-11535. 126 p. [Instructions for juvenille instruments, made from supplies around the home. Includes chapters on "Rhythm Sticks, Blocks and Scrapers," "Shakers and Rattles" (including goard rattles and bullroarers), "Castanets, Triangles, Cymbals," "Bells, Chimes and Marimbas" (including stone bells, nail chimes, brass rod chimes, musical glasses, wooden marimbas and xylophones), "Drums, Drums, Drums" (with tom-toms, water drum, tambourines, and beaters), "Skin Drums" (including making and attaching the skin head, also with fiber pipe drums), and "Odds and Ends for Rhythm Bands," as well as string, wind, and clay instruments.]

Mason, Bernard S. How to Make Drums, Tomtoms & Rattles. n.p.: A. S. Barnes, 1938. Reprint: New York: Dover Publications, 1974. (206 p. : illus.) ISBN 0-486-21889-9. LCCN 73-90207. [Instructions for making American Indian drums, primitive drums, rattles and sound makers.]

Montagu, Jeremy. Making Early Percussion Instruments. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. (49 p.: illus., photos) [Descriptions and illustrations for making tabors and side drums, timbrels (tambourines), and nakers (small timpani). Also notes on other miscellaneous instruments. This book expands on his earlier article: "On the reconstruction of mediaeval instruments of percussion." The Galpin Society Journal no. 23 (August 1970): 104-114.]

Sawyer, David. Vibrations: Making Unorthodox Musical Instruments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. (102 pp.: photos, illus. ) ISBN 0-521-20812-2. LCCN 76-11499 [Instructions for making drums, shakers, scrapers, and beaters.] [Bamboo slit drum, pitch tube, bamboo bonca, metal bonca, ratchet, bamboo scraper, bamboo claves, hand clapper, bamboo chime bar, tube bars, whirling friction drum, tin-can maraca, coconut maraca, cracker, tube drums, ceramic chimes, angel bars, beaters.]

Weidemann, Charles C. Music in Sticks and Stones: How to Construct and Play Simple Instruments. New York: Exposition Press, 1967, (91 p. photos, illus.) [Essays on music making, with instructions for making a xylophone, kachuphone, musical bottles, resonators (with measurements according to pitchand instructions for wooden, bamboo, cardboard, and linoleum construction), celestaphone (w/plate glass bars), and stonario (tuned stone bars).]

OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST

Musical Instrument Design: Practical Information for Instrument Making. ["A book of underlying principals for design and construction of acoustic musical instruments of all sorts.] [Available from Experimental Musical Instruments, P. O. Box 784, Nicasio, CA 94946, ph: 415-662-2182]

BOOKS BY EMIL AND CELESTE RICHARDS, FOR YOUNGER MUSICIANS

Making Music in Mommy's Kitchen. New York: Award Music, [1974].

Tune In! Making More Musical Sounds. New York: Award Music, 1977.

Fun Musical Compositions for the Very Young and/or Unmusical. New York: Award Music, 1977.