funky fun bought,found or fashioned percussion instruments

[shedshrine]

What little (or not so little) tool toys do you have around specifically to add rhythmic percussive noise spice.
Any variations on the usual suspects?
Recently got some funky fine percussion things that smack, clack, shake and ring from yokohama chinatown.


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[kslight]

Largeish very resonant tins, like the kind your mom sends you cookies in.

Empty beer bottles. gently vibrating against each other.

Dry ice pressed against a resonant object, such as a beer bottle or can (this isn't really percussive as much as tonal, pitch can be controlled by varying the pressure and object used).

[shedshrine]

That dry ice idea sounds fun. Where's a good source for dry ice if you just wanted to run out and get some?
(just googled: liquor stores, welder supplies..)
Yeah, big old cookie tins and silos. Your grip damps and controls the sound somewhat.

I've got a little jam jar with rice that you can alternate your thumb off and on the lid for variation.
A water cooler plastic bottle for "dwoomb" type sounds.
..and a mess of egg shakers.

[ubertar]

Egg shakers are easy to make, and now is a good time for them, b/c plenty of drugstores and 99 cent stores still have leftover easter stuff. Fill them with rice or whatever to get different sounds and have a variety of them. Balloon drums are fun, too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR1DvekvmdA

[kslight]

That dry ice idea sounds fun. Where's a good source for dry ice if you just wanted to run out and get some?
(just googled: liquor stores, welder supplies..)
Yeah, big old cookie tins and silos. Your grip damps and controls the sound somewhat.

I've got a little jam jar with rice that you can alternate your thumb off and on the lid for variation.
A water cooler plastic bottle for "dwoomb" type sounds.
..and a mess of egg shakers.

I wasn't the first person ever to discover that you can make sounds with dry ice, but I discovered it for myself accidentally one day in high school (about 9 years ago?) when my friends and I bought 25 pounds of dry ice from the grocery store with the intend of making pressure bombs to be detonated at the farm for amusement (powdered dry ice poured into 2 liter bottles, then filling the bottle with hot water and screwing the lid tight, creates loud but otherwise relatively harmless bombs). I think its a really cool sound, similar to a saw tooth wave synthesizer without a low pass filter, and its surprisingly controllable. I actually did some recordings with dry ice with my old band, it was highly amusing. You can get it at some grocery stores, gas stations, bait shops...

[shedshrine]

Balloon drums are fun, too...

Nice school of rock vid there uber! One can only imagine what a nice uber ribbon would sound like on those..


This balloon drum playing in this link sounds like the intro to that old Steve Winwood tune "Higher Love"..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNLcVQ-t ... re=related

[shedshrine]

Empty beer bottles. gently vibrating against each other.

Kind of like the ending of that Beatles White Album tune "Long,Long,Long", but with only one hand clapping

(wiki: "According to Harrison's autobiography, I Me Mine, the rattling heard at the end of the song was the result of a bottle of Blue Nun wine sitting on the Leslie speaker. When Paul McCartney played a certain note on the Hammond organ the bottle began to rattle.[3] To compound the sound, Starr recorded a fast snare drum roll.")

Now remembering that similar threads about
objects that make "crazy" sounds for musique concrete

or Weird/Makeshift Percussion Sounds

or recording with house hold items will probably already cover some stuff that would go in this thread.

[JGriffin]

Um, looking quickly into the sound toys bin, we have:

a length of radiator hose

two paper plates taped together with coffee beans inside

a paper bag full of spent bullet casings

a cheap leather whip

the metal support basket from a Remo rototom

a length of rusty chain

several very cheap toy maracas

a tennis ball

a rubber duck

a pick-up-sticks game in a tin cylinder

5 kazoos

a slide whistle

a "sound stick" from an aquarium gift shop that mimics the sound a whale makes

[shedshrine]

Um, looking quickly into the sound toys bin, we have:

a length of radiator hose

spent bullet casings

a cheap leather whip

a length of rusty chain

Leftover motivational aids from the Best Snare Sound Ever thread no doubt

[JGriffin]

Um, looking quickly into the sound toys bin, we have:

a length of radiator hose

spent bullet casings

a cheap leather whip

a length of rusty chain

Leftover motivational aids from the Best Snare Sound Ever thread no doubt

Yeah, fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with that.

[cgarges]

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

[Harry]

We have a set of metal mixing bowls ...fill them with various amounts of water and hit the from the bottom. get the water swirling a little.sounds.."wet"

[vvv]

Lots of kids toys; the mini castanets and tambos are especially useful, as well as a rubber-skinned tom.

Xmas ornament bells ...

I have a buncha little bamboo flutes of various sizes, hand-painted, intended as children's party favors, and they have been used here and there.

[The Scum]

A Nalgene bottle with an inch or two of water in it can get some neat table/water drum sounds.

A length of 1.5" square metal tubing with a handful of dried corn inside, as a "tenor shaker" and substitute for a shekere.

[casey campbell]

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

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