Mouth Organ

How to make mouth organ from old markers

Step 1 What you need

minimum 8 markers

2 stick

string

Comments

[sakabato777]

they are called pan pipes b.t.w.

[Jodex]

Or actually pan flute. But anyways the sound of that was much better than I'd except from those markers. Great!

[fwjs28]

ypu can also make 'em out of used tampons(the plastic kind)

[leon0862]

eww wtf wrong with you

[leximarley]

I doubt they meant used tampons lol...

[fwjs28]

XD, i thought there was a lot of commotion from what i meant to say, i meant to say the tube part without the tampon, not a used one..ahahaha, i was wondering why everyone was so freaked out 

[fwjs28]

wtf is so normal with you?

[Soupraok]

gross, your sick as hell. why would you even say that.

[vampireZOMBIE]

i agree, we all could have gone without knowing that.

[Juklop]

Probably because it's related to this Instructable. Hah.

[fwjs28]

not rlly, well, if there not used i dont see any problem with that.....

[naruto the ninja13]

i just made one from old BIC pens

[vampireZOMBIE]

what is the yellow and black thing?

[Maureclaire]

What do you close up the marker with ? Doesn't look like you put the top back on, right ? awesome idea ! Want to make it for my grandson !

[Capt. Fat]

..........what the............. This iis different.

[waverider894]

I used one and cut it little y little to get the right note, and use it to tune my guitar and sax

[funkmachine316]

Techinically a mouth organ is a harmonica. Just saying.

[ohhmyhead]

well, it's both, though you see this kind of instrument called pan pipes more often than a mouth organ.

[irinazcona]

nice video!

[GorillazMiko]

Awesome! Nicely done, very colorful! I was playing with one of these (well, actually, my friend was) at the antique store the other day. They were wood though. Nice job, 4/5 stars.

[Evan606]

Its also called a pan flute which is wat its normally called

[LinuxH4x0r]

Very nice! I don't think the lengths are right though.

[rimar2000]

Very nice, but lack to sharpen it. 7 mm are not the same for all the tubes.

[Patrik]

Heh - cute idea. And very colorful as well. :-)

Note that for a more correct tuning, you wouldn't just add a fixed length to each pipe. Instead, the pipes should follow a geometric (aka exponential) progression. Each octave has pipes that are *half* as long as the previous octave. So if you started with a 20cm long marker for the lowest note, the note that is exactly one octave above that lowest note would require a 10 cm long pipe. The octave above that would require a 5cm long pipe, etc...

By the way, this is strictly speaking not a mouth organ, but a pan flute, named after Pan, the Greek god of shepherds (and... other things ;-)

A mouth organ (other than being a term for a harmonica) is an asian reed instruments, with a central air cavity, connected to a bunch of pipes played with the fingers - wonderful sound! Here are some examples: