Morning Session🎶 Upsound: Build Your Own Musical Instrument
Sat, 13 Sept
|Glenunga
Kids will explore how sound is made by experimenting with different types of instruments. GTCASA Members are half price - Dont forget to use your Coupon Code.


Time & Location
13 Sept 2025, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Glenunga, 99 L'Estrange St, Glenunga SA 5064, Australia
Guests
About the event
Unleash your creativity & build your very own, one-of-a-kind instrument.
We’ll explore how different instruments like brass, string, percussion and a gramophone make sound. Then, you’ll start designing and creating your own musical instrument using the materials provided. I’ll guide you through the fun process of creating, combining and amplifying sound in exciting ways and help you to bring your musical ideas to life.
Finally, it’s showtime! You’ll get to present and play your new instrument for everyone to hear, and you get to take your musical masterpiece home.
This fun, sensory-friendly session is ideal for kids who like to create, tinker, explore music, or just try something different.
GTCASA Members are half price - Don't forget to use your Coupon Code.
Check out Jacob's Facebook page for an idea of what you will be making.
You are welcome to bring your own cordless drill with bit sized between 2mm-10mm.
If you ant to build a gramophone/record player you will need something to spin!
Bike wheels
Pram wheels
Lazy Suzan
Skate board
OLD LP’s.
If you want to make a stringed instrument you will needCardboard boxes (sturdy) eg:
10l water boxes
Headphone boxes
iPad , Lap top boxes
Sturdy shoe boxes
Wooden wine box
Garden equipment with a WOODEN handle (doesn’t need to be broken we can make an instrument out of the handle so you can play music whilst gardening or sweeping up the deck)
Wooden bed slats Maybe someone has an old bed they are throwing away the bed slats are super useful.
Bamboo sticks 1.5cm - 3cm in diameter-
Tennis rackets
Badminton rackets
Cricket / Hockey baseball Bats work well too!
Percussion/ drums
You will need hollow objects like
Clean tin cans all sizes and shapes
Strong plastic tubs Buckets containers
And cool sounding metal like tin lids
Flutes need clean hollow tubes
Or A big bunch of thick carrots we can make flutes from these.
Wine Champagne corks and old broken instruments are super useful.