A book arrived in this morning’s mail, from my friend CB. He’s had this kicking around his place for many years and when he saw my oil can banjos, he decided to send it my way. It’s called Musical Instruments made to be played by Ronald Roberts. It comes with a big fold out sheet of plans inside the front cover. Here’s a list of instruments it covers:

Unpitched percussion instruments such as shells, pebbles, castenet type blockes, coconut shells, claves, shakers, maracas, bamboo shakers, jingles, lagerphones, milk rustles, Resonated jingles, simple drums, drum sticks, drums with real vellums, ptch fiber drums, slit drums and Rasps or Guiros

Pitched percussion instruments such as plant posts, glass tumblers, simple xylophones of softwood, smaller zylophones of softwood, two-note xylophone on a cord, resonated zylophones, tubular glockenspiel, bar glockenspiel or metallophone, sansa or Kaffir pianos.

Simple string instruments such as a set of fiddle cramps, simple psalteries, one-octave and two-octave zithers, nordic lyres, bowed psalteries, and chordal dulcimers.

This is going to be a fun read.