a melodica? and other unusual intruments

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<p>Wondering if anyone has experience with a melodica?</p>

<p>Son the younger loves instruments (he has a 1970s drum set inherited from dad, a new cowbell, a supercool (and $$) fantom X7 keyboard, a hang drum, xylophone, and a toy accordian!) and would like a melodica for his 16th birthday.</p>

<p>I’ve looked it melodicas on the Hohner site and see that they have a soprano and alto version, 24-key and 32 key and even bigger, plus various mouthpieces. And, happily, there are some on Ebay, as I’m not willing to spring for a high-priced model even for a sweet kid.</p>

<p>Any other interesting instruments? (Not expensive!)</p>

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<p>These should keep you busy [Musical</a> Instruments-Unique Unusual Odd Strange Weird Experimental Rare Wacky Musical Instruments Gallery sound clips,photos](<a href=“http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/]Musical”>Musical Instruments-Unique Unusual Odd Strange Weird Experimental Rare Wacky Musical Instruments Gallery sound clips,photos)</p>

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<p>violadad: AWESOME! My son is going to love this website, and he’s going to want lots of the instruments (he has mentioned a gamelen). And there’s always ingenuity and craftsmanship–he could make the Aquaggaswack–carefully strung-together pot lids, and they sound great! (too bad we live right in town…)</p>

<p>Thanks. This is an amazing website.</p>

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<p>One of my kids collects instruments too. He has made his own djembes–there is a fabulous program in Ghana where he spent a month working with a master drum carver (don’t know how adventurous y’all are). For Christmas this year I gave him a lyre.</p>

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<p>BassDad; We have Boomwhackers! They’re hanging up in his room. He’s got other odds and ends, too. I’ve been thinking about autoharps, too, that old standby.</p>

<p>jazzzmomm: A lyre. Oh my goodness. Will look at djembes–son would love to carve drums in Ghana!</p>

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<p>Just for fun…Here’s one that could take up the whole back yard - all 200 tons of it…note that they no longer exist but served an interesting purpose in its day</p>

<p>JD</p>

<p>[Synthmuseum.com</a> - Magazine](<a href=“http://www.synthmuseum.com/magazine/0102jw.html]Synthmuseum.com”>Synthmuseum.com - Magazine)</p>

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<p>That is incredible, Dad in Oh. He will love this, too. He did a big project in middle school on synthesizers (which is how we got talked into the Rowland fantom as a birthday-Christmas-birthday-Christmas present) but I doubt he’s seen this.</p>

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<p>A few more, especially for the string player. [Unusual</a> Instruments](<a href=“http://www.siegelproductions.ca/fiddlefarmers/unusualinstruments.html]Unusual”>Unusual Instruments)</p>

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<p>My son has both a melodica and a djembe (two djembes, in fact). He would love more than anything to learn Ghana drum making; in fact, he plans on doing this at some point (part of a gap year plan that he has cooked up if he isn’t satisfied with his academic or conservatory choices).</p>

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<p>Allmusic–do you know what kind of melodica? number of keys and mouthpiece?</p>

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<p>This is the one he has:</p>

<p>[Hohner</a> HM-36 Professional 36 Melodica and more Melodicas at GuitarCenter.com.](<a href=“http://www.guitarcenter.com/Hohner-HM-36-Professional-36-Melodica-420630-i1133710.gc]Hohner”>http://www.guitarcenter.com/Hohner-HM-36-Professional-36-Melodica-420630-i1133710.gc)</p>

<p>It also has this funky little flexible cord with mouthpiece, that you can use, instead of blowing into it directly. Must produce some different sound, but I don’t play it!</p>