Small Unusual Musical Instruments

I like to collect unique musical instruments that i use in therapy with my clients.

Musical instrument onomatopoeia. The ukulele is probably the most common small musical instrument for travel. The instrument with the most solid feel is the yamaha pianica. Belonging to the lute family the balalaika has russian roots.

I have disassembled the yamaha and tuned it. Weird musical instruments abound. You need some 6 hands and 5 brains for this instrument or so it seems.

All you need is a small curved file and a good quality screw driver or two. The kalimba thumb piano. The dulcimer a member of the zither family is a type of stringed instrument.

Invented in 1920 by russian physicist lev termen the theremin was originally intended for use in classical music. Its one of the. I considered returning the item.

Despite comments one sees to the contrary melodicas are not difficult to tune. It is a well constructed instrument. Its good for accompanying your voice in songs and it just gives you the summer vibes somewhere over the rainbow difficulty 70 romance 80.

However i took it as a challenge fix it myself and attempt to tune it too. Even ones with animals in them exist in the present and thats not even counting the theoretical ones throughout history that got a little too bizarre. Not sure what to make out of this unusual instrument.

The guitar isnt exactly a small instrument but its still relatively portable. The chapman stick the stick is an electric musical instrument devised by emmett chapman in the early 1970s. Small when its about the size but huge when its about the charm the ukulele is a perfect instrument for.

Not only is it a national instrument in. A member of the guitar family the chapman stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines melody lines chords or textures. Instructions can be found on melodicas dot com.

This instrument is weird because it requires no touch to be played instead one produces sound by moving their hands in proximity to two antennas. It seems like you need powerful lungs for this one.