Assembling Natural Materials into a Musical Instrument
Duration : 1 hour
Students : 10
Lecturer : 1
How great my hands are! The First Musical Instrument Made by my Hands with the Present from Nature.
How many kinds of materials can we get from nature? The numbers are great beyond your imagination. The class started with introducing folk musical instruments made of the natural materials and then moved to making instruments. The “Bird Flute” in Southeast Asia, the Kalimba in Africa (thumb-piano) and the calabash rattle were easy to make but the children felt challenged and confidence in doing it on their own. Also, the class has the children felt easy on utilizing tools by careful guidance.
The Rain Stick is a traditional instrument in the Andes region, Chile to communicate with the god of rain. It is mainly made of cactus and belongs to the percussive instrument (shaker). The instrument is made by pushing in the cactus prickles and putting pebbles inside the cactus. By shaking, it sounded like rain-falling and was played in the rain-calling ceremony.
The children painted interesting ethnic symbols under the guide of arts teachers to maximize visual and educational effect. This was a chance for children to understand the structures including the resonating devices of the primitive musical instruments. This would help their job to make crafted musical instruments. Let’s have a time to play the instruments. The children naturally has confidence in making musical instruments while listening to the sound from their instruments.
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