Morning Session🎶 Upsound: Build Your Own Musical Instrument

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.