how to make a sistrum

A sistrum is a mitt-held percussion instrument that dates back to Ancient Egypt. Make your own with items from around the house.

Past Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou [Daria is an laurels-winning children's performer with 5 CDs that have won national honors. world wide web.dariamusic.com]

A sistrum is a paw-held percussion musical instrument that was generally played by priestesses or the courtroom musicians who entertained pharaohs and dignity. In fact, if you look closely at hieroglyphics or books most Egyptian civilisation, you can come across examples of this instrument in some of it'south various shapes and sizes.

What You Need:

1 wire glaze hanger
Electrical tape
2 (unsharpened) pencils or small-scale dowels
Assorted buttons, jingle bells or metal washers
A small amount of floral wire, jewelry wire, line-fishing twine or embroidery thread
A wire-cutter
Sistrum Coloring Page

What You Do:

First, straighten out the curved terminate of the coat hanger. This will form the handle to your sistrum. To make a strong handle that is easier to concur, place ii un-sharpened pencils or wooden dowels next to the wire and slowly wrap it with electric tape. Start at the lesser and wrap to the top. At the stop, wind the electrical record around the base of the sistrum to secure the handle in place.

Then, use your wire cutters to cutting the long side of your glaze hanger in half: exactly in the middle; directly above the handle. Slowly and advisedly bend each side down into the shape of your last instrument – somewhat like the alphabetic character "Y".

Utilize your electric record to spike the two sides together on each side, leaving a infinite for ii or three rows of bangles. Different colors of this type of tape can brand the projection even more decorative!

Finally, thread dissimilar kinds of buttons, jingle bells or metal washers onto a modest piece of floral wire or jewelry wire. You can also apply fishing twine or embroidery thread, simply wire is better at keeping the bangles in place. Tie or secure the wire in identify on each side and try out your musical instrument. Information technology should brand a pleasing sound when "swooshed" from 1 side to some other.

Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou

Award-winning children's performer, DARIA (Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou) has five cd's that have won national honors. She has the most awesome job of traveling the earth to sing for kids and peace. Her website; located at dariamusic.com, was given a 2009 Parents Pick Award for its musical and cultural content. She also has several musical blogs including:

Making Multicultural Music
(Sharing Variety Through The Arts)
http://makingmulticulturalmusic.wordpress.com

Tiny Tapping Toes
(Music For The Very Young)
tinytappingtoes.wordpress.com

Creciendo Con Música
(A Castilian Language Blog Near Growing With Music)
http://creciendoconmusicblog.wordpress.com/

Sistrum Coloring Folio

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Sistrum Coloring Page

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