--- product_id: 98989085 title: "Musical Inventions" price: "£24.76" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/98989085-musical-inventions store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Musical Inventions **Price:** £24.76 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Musical Inventions - **How much does it cost?** £24.76 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/98989085-musical-inventions) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Musical Inventions: DIY Instruments to Toot, Tap, Crank, Strum, Pluck, and Switch On (Make) [Ceceri, Kathy] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Musical Inventions: DIY Instruments to Toot, Tap, Crank, Strum, Pluck, and Switch On (Make) Review: Five Stars - Grear projects! Review: A well-written and smoothly structured how-to guide for creating homemade musical instruments using common items - Humans have been making music using homemade instruments since long before recorded history. This fun how-to book blends music, science, common household items and tools, and instructions on how to create everything from a zucchini flute to a homemade music box and an eerie-sounding theremin using three old AM radios positioned close together. The book includes numerous full-color photographs and illustrations, plus step-by-step construction details and interesting vignettes on historical music inventors, such as Benjamin Franklin and Robert Moog (creator of the Moog Synthesizer). Some of the projects are as simple as folding a single sheet of paper to make a popper, and others are more complicated and require using some simple electronics parts and procedures. "Musical Inventions" is well-written, smoothly structured and reflects the author's writing experience. She has written several other Make books, including "Edible Inventions," "Paper Inventions," and "Making Simple Robots." She also has written books on robotics and video games for another publisher. (My thanks to O'Reilly Media for providing an advance reading copy for review.) ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,553,803 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #233 in Engineering Patents & Inventions #2,052 in Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement (Books) #3,933 in Homeschooling (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (30) | | Dimensions | 6.9 x 0.4 x 9.1 inches | | Edition | 1st | | ISBN-10 | 1680452339 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1680452334 | | Item Weight | 1.05 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 249 pages | | Publication date | June 20, 2017 | | Publisher | Make Community, LLC | | Reading age | 8 years and up | ## Images ![Musical Inventions - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71vQtA0miiL.jpg) ![Musical Inventions - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71f2ntMOvUL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars *by J***K on September 2, 2017* Grear projects! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A well-written and smoothly structured how-to guide for creating homemade musical instruments using common items *by S***N on June 9, 2017* Humans have been making music using homemade instruments since long before recorded history. This fun how-to book blends music, science, common household items and tools, and instructions on how to create everything from a zucchini flute to a homemade music box and an eerie-sounding theremin using three old AM radios positioned close together. The book includes numerous full-color photographs and illustrations, plus step-by-step construction details and interesting vignettes on historical music inventors, such as Benjamin Franklin and Robert Moog (creator of the Moog Synthesizer). Some of the projects are as simple as folding a single sheet of paper to make a popper, and others are more complicated and require using some simple electronics parts and procedures. "Musical Inventions" is well-written, smoothly structured and reflects the author's writing experience. She has written several other Make books, including "Edible Inventions," "Paper Inventions," and "Making Simple Robots." She also has written books on robotics and video games for another publisher. (My thanks to O'Reilly Media for providing an advance reading copy for review.) ### ⭐⭐⭐ Good info, but the electronics section is laughable. *by B***G on December 28, 2019* The DIY builds in here are great for STEAM education, classrooms and homeschooling purposes and there is a lot of great educational information in here about music in general to whet you appetite. However, the section on building electronic DIY instruments may as well be a shopping list. It largely recommends buying LittleBits (usually $99 to $160 for kits) or MakeyMakeys (also around $50) to build things. While the paper circuits and some mild circuit bending are a notable exception, I am surprised the author didn't take the time to teach people any actual audio circuitry (simple oscillators are cheap and a very quick build). The instruments in this book are cute but are hardly useful for a serious instrument builder and i am pretty disappointed with the electronics section - more research could have been done here rather than suggest sales of STEAM learning kits to people (which is surprising since most of the rest of this book can be made on a fairly humble budget or household items). For diving deeper into that, I recommend Nicolas Collins' "Handmade Electronic Music." I did build the washtub bass however - which was a blast. ## Frequently Bought Together - Musical Inventions: DIY Instruments to Toot, Tap, Crank, Strum, Pluck, and Switch On (Make) - Make Paper Inventions: Machines That Move, Drawings That Light Up, and Wearables and Structures You Can Cut, Fold, and Roll --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/98989085-musical-inventions](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/98989085-musical-inventions) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-18*