Stamping Tubes
Stamping tubes are easy to make. They are traditionally a handmade musical instrument created from bamboo to pound rice in rhythm can be built with black ABS pipe originally meant for transporting sewage. Just slap on an end cap and tune by cutting the other end. You can make a complete scale.
Berimbau
The berimbau is a South American instrument I think meant to call for Capoeira dance steps. It can be made by punching a wooden dowl through the sides of a Campbells soup can. Then, bend the dowel to hold a shorter metal line between the ends forming the shape of the bow as in a bow and arrow. Next tie another metal line around the first line and pull it towards the soup can. Punch a hole in he bottom of the soup can and thread the new line through he hole and tie it off. Then beat the first metal line with a stick or another dowel.
Lyre
A Lyre can be made with three pieces of wood and a large coffee can. Just glue the three pieces of wood together to make a tringle where one passes through both sides of the cofee can. Tie the ends where the wood is glued with twine for extra strength. Put 7 eye screws to hold any nylon string such as mono filament fishing line. You get the idea.
Spike fiddle/lute
Push a broom handle through both sides of a can with both ends removed. Place a plastic lid on one end of the can. Put an eye screw at the the end of the long side of the broom handle. Use something for a loose nut on the plastic lid. I've found aluminum scraps work well. A bow can be made similar to the barimbau but substitute fabric which you will rosin with pine sap. You can make a buzzing bridge like a sitar using a bridge made of camel or cow or pig bone cut in the shape of a parabola. With the drawer body I talk about next you could make a nice Tamboura drone instrument.
Hammered dulcimer
Get an old drawer and take it apart carefully so as not to damage it. Glue and nail it back together with extra wood inside on the ends that will accept eye screws or nails without splitting. This also makes a good guitar body. Anyway, hammer nails through the top on one side where the extra interior wood is and thread eye screws through the top on the other end. Place a bridge or bridges on the top and thread metal wire tied to the nails, over the bridge(s) and around the eye screw. Make a sound hole in the top.
Metal bells
Get some old scuba tanks from your neighborhood scuba store that don't test well anymore. They junk and they might even give them to you but you might have to pay a few bucks for them. Then take them to a metal shop and have them cut. This is a little expensive and if you can do it yourself its better because you don't have this crusty old guy looking at you like your crazy when you want it cut again to tune it better.
Didgeridoo
Get big pvc or abs pipe and cut to length. Experiment with cutting holes in end caps and sanding for the appropriate sized embroshure. For more interest use elbows, U joints and expansions to make it into the shape of a saxophone with a bell.
Chimes
Chimes can be made with nails of graduated sizes. You can cut the larger ones also to keep going in a gradual progression. Old keys also work.You can build metallophones/ metal xyllophones using galvanized steel electrical conduit its cheap and produces the best tone out of all of the possibilities. In Korea I can't find the stuff. The next inexpensive choice is aluminum but it will bend and go out of tune if you pound on it like a kid does. Just drill holes though the tube near both ends at about 22.6% of the distance from the end and put a chord such as weed wacker line.
Drums
5 gallon plastic water bottle also make good drums.
Gongs
Gongs can be made out of large circular saw blades.
Red terracotta flower pots make great bells. Go shopping at the garden shop with a pitch pipe or electric tuner. Just thread a big ass rope through the holes in the bottoms. Sounds great.
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