Making and Playing Musical Instruments

Botermans, Jack, Herman Dewit, and Hans Goddefroy {Editing and Composition By} with Afke Den Boer and Margot De Zeeuw {Text} and Piet Hohmann {Working Drawings}

ISBN 10: 0295969482 / ISBN 13: 9780295969480

Published by University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., 1989

About this Item

"This book introduces folk instruments from around the world. Beautiful full color photographs illustrate traditional instruments in use. Detailed drawings and instructions show how to make and play similar instruments. An elderberry flute, a tongue clapper, a rommelpot, ans an African lyre are just four of the forty instruments described in MAKING AND PLAYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Beginnnig with the easiest to construct and play and progressing to the most difficult {the hurdy-gurdy}, all the tools and techniques necessary to build the instruments are described. Also included are the principles and techniques for playing them." This book has 120 pages and is profusely illustrated.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making and Playing Musical Instruments
• Publisher: University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295969482
• ISBN 13: 9780295969480
• Binding: Pictorial Hordcover
• Edition: Not Given
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Leisure
  • Music
  • Crafts and Hobbies