San Antonio College Library

Provides illustrated plans for building thirty innovative and playable musical instruments with basic carpentry skills and a few power tools, including a flute, guitar, hand drum, ocarina, and bowed psaltery.

"Musical Instruments traces the evolution of music instruments and their important contributions to today's world cultures. With more than 150 color photographs, this illustrated book by ethnologist Lucie Rault explores the relationship between musical instruments and the people and societies who use them. She examines the importance of various cultures by looking at the art of musical instruments from depictions of early instruments in prehistoric...

This book includes instructions for constructing musical instruments with simple tools. It is arranged to follow the popular division of instruments into percussion, string, and wind sections, but many of the instruments have been singled out for special ethnic groups. Two additional sections include suggestions for teachers and recreation directors and methods for construction and working with different materials.