Page 17 - Oct-Dec 2017

VOL. 14 No. 4
Let’s Make Our Own Music!

Most of us are familiar with playing at least one instrument, be it wind, stringed or percussion. But have you ever
thought of making your own instrument? That too from things that are of no use! Here is a collection of instruments
that are easy to make.

JaL taRang gOURd RattLe

It consists of a set of 18 Different types of material
porcelain cups of varying sizes. inside the gourd make different
These cups with water are kinds of sounds. Let us make a
arranged in a semi-circle in gourd rattle of our own!
decreasing order of size with Material required:
the largest cup on the left. The • Dried gourd
cups are then struck with two • Seeds/beans/small pebbles/cumin seeds
thin bamboo sticks to create music. • A stick (4-6 inches long)
Nitya, XI A, Suditi Global Academy, etawah • A piece of string

Method:
SHOe BOx HaRP 1. Cut off the narrow end of the gourd with a knife.

Material required: 2. Use a spoon to take out the seeds and the membrane
Shoe box from the gourd. (These can later be used for the rattle
Scissors effect).
Pencil 3. Dry it out in the sun or heat it in the oven at a low
Rubber bands temperature.
Method: 4. Fill it up with the seeds/pebbles of your choice.
1. Cut a hole in the centre of the box and add 5-6 rubber 5. Attach the stick to the end of the gourd with glue.
bands to the box.
2. Put the pencil under the rubber bands to make it like 6. Secure it with a string.
a bridge. Pluck the strings and sing along! 7. Shake the gourd in sync with the music and you have
your own percussion instrument.
Aishwarya. S, VIII A, royal Park School, Salem

mUSIC... meLOdY... memORIeS ... DID yoU kNow?
The following advertisements bring out the The first voice from India was
evolution that the music industry has seen recorded by the Gramophone
in the last 100 years. Look at the ads and Company in 1899 in London.
interpret them. The first gramophone disc was
Keshni Goel, IX C, Green Fields cut in Kolkata in 1902.
School, Delhi

talented tetseo Sisters

This is a group of four sisters
from Nagaland, from the
C h a kh e s a ng
Naga tribe.
They sing in the
Chokri dialect of
their region.

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