I have been interested in building musical instruments for as long as I can remember. Some of my first attempt into building instruments happened when I discovered the ocarina. I could not have been older than about nine and I tried to build one with both play-doe and modeling clay using various other materials to provide more stiffness. I don’t think I ever even got a peep out of those but it provided me days and days worth of activity. I also was very intrigued with washtub basses, having seen some muppet filled program on TV and they seemed to have success. I would never put a hole in my moms wash tube so I never built one, but rubber bands of different lengths provided me with many hours of satisfaction.
Now I’m a bit older and understand the physics and design of instruments a bit better but the child in me still wants to build an instrument and make it work. As an adult I usually build whistles, high D whistles to be more precise, but I am working on low D whistles now.
Michael knowing my odd attraction to building instruments sent me some links to some instrument maker forums which prompted me to write this post. here is his link http://www.mimf.com/ I Also have several books that I can recommend some of which I have and a few of which I would not mind reading.

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