(YouTube link) The Swingtop Philharmonic Orch...  ...y for this project, plays "Oh, Christmas Tree" on instruments

Marvin Maxwell once made a guitar from a toilet seat. Now he's reversed that idea and made a toilet seat that looks like a guitar! Or how abut a "piano bench", if that's your taste? Several colors are available from...

Last summer David Byrne of The Talking Heads con...  ...building, the Camden Roundhouse in London, into a musical instrument! He connected every pipe, pillar, and...  .... This is one only of several large and different musical instruments made out of structures such as silos, a tower, a...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qkh9vUlMI...  ...some basic principles regarding the generation of musical notes.  It reminds me of the unusual musical creations of Gerard Hoffnung, who commissioned th...

Look at the size of that saxophone! Pitched on...  ...e octave below bass, contrabass and subcontrabass instruments are about as low as most instruments go. Aside from those massive pipe organs, they're...  ...ve pipe organs, they're also about as big as most instruments get....

Andy Mackie of Washington state had undergone nine...  ...now 70-year-old Mackie also makes and buys other musical instruments for interested children, and arranges for his old...

Who knew there were so many types of trombones? Douglas Yeo has pictures of all kinds of trombone configurations. Pictured is a buccin, a trombone with a bell ending in a zoomorphic head. Link -via Metafilter...

I was in band and orchestra when I was in high sch...  ...hone or their own hands. Oh well. Here are five instruments that might have you rethinking your own musical aspirations.The Vegetable Orchestra.Technically,...  ...unds like – everyone in the orchestra plays instruments...