I don't claim much talent, but I have made my own instruments and learned or composed a handful of songs on them.
There's a rather new instrument called the
Hang that's like an inside out steel drum one can play with their hands. It sounds
amazing but is very expensive and difficult to get a hold of without a trip to Bern, Swizerland.
The instruments I made are called Hank Drums, invented by a talented guy named Dennis Havlena as a low cost DiY imitation of the Hang: Take a new and empty propane tank, follow the pattern on Mr. Havlena's
website and cut eight U-shaped tabs of different size. Get them tuned in and you have a fun instrument that sounds kinda like the Hang.
Here's what I have recorded on my Hank drums:
Funeral March of a Marionette AKA the Alfred Hitchcock theme song
Sunset Hank - time lapse clouds video with Hank drum audio
Hank Drone - a little song fragment
Metamorphosis - my most ambitious song
Last Words - a little sad thing I put together when I heard Satoshi Kon passed away
I've made a few other assorted music videos too, but that's drifting from the topic.
