How to make BMG PVC Instrument paddles for free(if you are a drummer)

I came across the Blue Man Groups PVC instruments on youtube a little while ago and i really wanted to make one, so i started cutting all pipe then i realized that i can't play it without paddles. So i searched for free paddle ideas but there is no good ones out there, so i had to put on my thinkin' cap and come up with idea of my own and this is it!! :)

Step 1 Supplies for the BMG paddles

What you are going to need is pretty straight forward and nothing at all complicated with this step.

What you will need:

1 Pair of drumsticks (you can just go to like wally world and pickup some for really cheap)

1 Pair of sandals (the kind that have the thing go in between your big toe and other toe)

Duct Tape (the master of creativity)

Thats all!!

Comments

[jack penny]

just use rubber spatulas, thats what my brother and dad did when they made one. they made a morimba out of PVC for a homemade-instruments school project a year or so ago

[yourworstnightmare]

make the BMG instrument please

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

what the heck thats freaky.....

[tannerdj]

make a BMG instrument tutorial por favor!

[lovepirate9]

Something I saw on PVC pipe instruments, they used flip flops attached to a stick of some sort (a thick stick obviously) I think it was the childrens miramba band I found on youtube.

[Kiteman]

It would be a more impressive idea if you included pictures of what you actually did.

_{Assuming you have actually done this?}

[frollard]

I noticed that, but wasn't going to comment - it really needs a how-to... not just..."this is what i made, I made it and it looks like this, to make it, make them look like this"

[Kiteman]

He's added the pics since I commented - it looks much better now. @ 14kennisb; make sure you add a video to your instrument project!

[temp]

please make an instrument instructable.

[14kennisb]

temp i most certainly will ill start in a few days because i get out of school on wednesday

[temp]

You get out on wednesday? Lucky. I get out the 22nd. Which is a monday.

[Kiteman]

_{Some of us are stuck in school for the duration...}

[Dream Dragon]

I like the BMG too, and Stomp, but that's another story. Did you know that the instrument is formally called a "Plodeaphone"? I suspect these paddles would be difficult for anyone who wasn't familiar with percussion instruments since they need a certain amount of "bounce". They probably work for you because you have a good feel for the "drumhead" but generally padles for this kind of instrument are less rigid, often just cut to shape from mouse mats or flip-flop type sandles with a little stiffening in the handle but the paddle part left slightly flexible.

[14kennisb]

i got some pics on my computer ill put them on tommarrow hopefully, they work really good