MUSIC

Photo: Arnaud Frich
Photo: Arnaud Frich

 

You can pick and try any instrument you like.

 

Nearly a hundred different instruments are available to choose from.

 

 

Photo: Arnaud Frich
Photo: Arnaud Frich

 

LISTE OF INSTRUMENTS and MUSICAL GAMES
available at the workshop, by categories:

 

CLASSICAL

Piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, piccolo, clarinet, trumpet, cornet, guitar, harp

 

MODERN

Saxophone, melodica, harmonica

 

EARLY MUSIC

Baroque and Renaissance Recorders (soprano, alto, tenor) Baroque, Classical and Romantic flutes

 

AFRICAN

Balafon (wooden xylophone), darboukas (North African Goblet Drum), djembe (West African goblet drum), Kalimba (also known as Mbira, a hand-sized piano), Kora (West African harp-lute – awaiting repair), Sekere (maracas from Nigeria and Benin), Udu (drum from Nigeria), Zurna (Algerian bombarde).

 

AMERICA

Agogo, Rainstick (South America), Guianese Rattle, Kena (flute from the Andes), brasilian whistle, nose whistle (Amazon), Ukulele (small Hawaian guitar).

 

ASIA

Bansuris (Indian flute), Dizi (Chinese flute), Gong, Shofar (Israeli horn), Tibetan bowl

 

EUROPE

Balalaika (Russia), Dvoynice (Romanian double flute), Irish spoons, small and big Sazs (turkish guitar), Tin Whistles (Irish flutes), Tenora (Bombarde from Catalonia), Tilinko (Hungarian flute).

 

FRANCE, TRADITONAL MUSIC

Diatonic Accordion (awaiting tuning), Galoubet (Recorder from Provence played with one hand)

 

UNUSUAL INSTRUMENTS

Butadrum, Chimes, Eoliphone (wind machine), Sea drums, thunder tube, harmonic tube, aquatic instruments

 

SMALL INSTRUMENTS

Duck calls, moo box, Boom whackers, chiming Chinese balls, castanets, claves, bells, rattles, cymbals, water recorders, slide whistles, pan flutes, small flutes, mouth harp, frog guiros and fish guiros, harmonicas, ratchets, kazoos, maracas, metallophone, ocarinas, egg maracas, egg shakers, miniature piano, small drums and tambourines, bullroarers, ronfle, bird whistles, serinettes, whistles, friction drums, pellet drums, tan-tan, triangle

 

MUSICAL GAMES

  • Giant musical slide (build your own slide, let the marbles rolls to create music –16 metal notes each with a unique sound)
  • Sound memory game (16 pairs of maracas to match) 
  • Melodies memory game (16 pairs of music boxes to match)
  • Dominotes (dominos with a metallophone)
  • Metallophone hammer

 

Udu
Udu

 

Other instruments will join the studio over time. Please feel free to make suggestions... or donations (instruments never played, manuals, books about art, music or instruments).

 

Please note: we also accept instruments “on loan“. You can lend us instruments – they will be played by the members of the studio and I will take very good care of them. You can take the instrument home whenever you want.

 

 

Diatonic accordion
Diatonic accordion