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Musical Spoons – Complete Guide
This complete guide covers the origins of musical spoons, the differences between wood and metal, how size and hand size affect playing, how to cho...
How to EQ Kashaka Shakers
The kashaka shaker produces fast transients, sharp attacks, and a wide spread of high-frequency detail. A clean recording comes from controlling ha...
Kashaka Shaker – Complete Guide
Two small gourds on a length of rope, and one of the most rhythmically addictive instruments you can fit in a pocket. This guide covers what a kash...
Carved Arcade Launches Instrumonsters
Carved Arcade has launched Instrumonsters, a free browser-based game where musical instruments become characters with their own personalities, atta...
Free Online Virtual Piano Keyboard
A free online virtual piano keyboard lets you play piano notes, chords and songs directly in your browser without downloading an app or owning a ph...
Carved Arcade Launches Chord Bakery
Carved Arcade has launched Chord Bakery, a free browser-based chord game where players add notes into a mixing bowl and bake them into chords. Desi...
What Are the Easiest Instruments to Learn?
Learning an instrument doesn’t have to be difficult. Easy instruments let beginners play melodies or rhythms almost immediately without needing com...
Where to Buy a Gamelan – Buying Guide
Compare handcrafted gamelan instruments by sound, tuning, note count, bar shape, construction and sustain to find the right Indonesian metallophone for you.
How to Play the Gamelan (Tutorial)
Learn how to play a gamelan metallophone, control sustain, damp previous notes and practise simple patterns for cleaner playing.
Everything You Need to Know About Rainsticks
A rainstick sounds like rain falling, and nothing else in percussion does that. This guide covers how it works, what the different types sound like...
