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Free Instructional Sites:
Making Wind Chimes - an illustrated instructional guide to making windchimes out of hollow pipes and their tuning
9 Easy to Make Musical Instruments for Kids - a brief, text-only guide to simple musical instruments that you can make with your kids using common household objects, including a tambourine, drum, chimes, horn, cymbals, xylophone, guitar and hand bells
Banjo Building Home Page - an illustrated instructional site on all aspects of the banjo building process, covering bridge building, the dot inlay, truss rod, binding, inlaying mother of pearl and more
Bash the Trash: Instrument Construction Zone - illustrated guides on building musical instruments out of garbage, covering such instruments as the 4-in-1 coffee can, happy new year straw noisemaker, tube horns, tube trombones, finger piano, rubber band box guitars, tube-tar, styrocello and more
Bluestem Mountain Banjo Plan and Notes - a detailed overview of the process of building an open-back 5-string banjo and a Frank Proffitt-style mountain banjo, with accompanying simple plans an photos
Building a Cornamuse in F (Alto) - an illustrated guide to the construction of a cornamuse, a quiet double reed instrument, discussing the materials required, how to make the wooden parts, how to make the reed, the finger holes, tuning and more
Building a Hurdy-gurdy - an instructional guide on how to obtain the knowledge and resources necessary to build a hurdy-gurdy from plans or a kit
Building Mandolin No. 001 - a step-by-step, photo-enhanced guide to building a mandolin written by a first-time builder, covering the mandolin design, how to build the form, bending the sides, how to apply the finish, the mandolin neck, the top and back, mandolin fretting and more
Coppers and Brass: Making Something Out of Nothing - instruction in making musical instruments primarily out of plumbing pipe, including a tinwhistle/pennywhistle, Scottish small pipes and windchimes
Dennis Havlena: Music-Related Articles - text-based, instructional articles on making simple & inexpensive but nice sounding/playing musical instruments, including a hurgy gurdy, a simple wash-tub bass, a KORA, a low D tinwhistle, 2-octave kalimba, a simple 5-string fretless banjo, a bowed psaltery, a simple 12-course Hammered Dulcimer, a whirligig, Highland pipes from PVC piping, a pressman's hat and more
Harpmaking: Frequently Asked Questions - a frequently-asked question list intended for people who would like to investigate building a nylon string folk (aka celtic) harp, answering such questions as "Should I build a harp?", "Would making a harp save me money verses buying one?", "I really want to build. What are my options?", and also including a harpbuilding bibliography and addresses for hardware and string suppliers
Home Made Banjo - photo- and diagram-enhanced guides to building an open-back wooden banjo, a tenor banjo, a lute-back banjo and a camping banjo
Instrument Projects - illustrated guides and plans for building several instruments out of easily-found materials, including a PVC Clarinet in A3, PVC Flutes in Bb4, C5, D4 and G4, an ABS Sectional Didjerido, a CPVC Chromatic Panpipe, a PVC QuenaiIn G4 and an ABS Tube Drum
Pickin' Grass: How to build a bluegrass-style five-string banjo - a step-by-step illustrated instructional guide on building an authentic 5-string banjo, with instruction on where to get the parts and tools, how to make the banjo neck, fingerboard, how to attach the nick to the body, finishing, coloring, assembly and more
Song of the Great Lakes - Build a Banjo - detailed, illustrated step-by-step guides on how to build a banjo, containing an overview of the building process, instructions on making the neck, body, and fingerboard, fitting, finishing, fretting and more
The Little Aeolian Harp Page - a short illustrated guide to building a simple aeolian harp, a small harp designed to sit in an open window and "sing" with the breezes that blow across it
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