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Students build musical instruments and play them during a presentation as the final project for MUS 202 Instruments and Culture, taught by Professor James Makubuya.

Multiple students constructed drums. William Hoffman '10 (left) plays his Shaman drum and Brandon McKinney '10 (right) talks about his "split personality" drum which he named because it can be played on the wooden frame or on the goat skin membrane.

Steve Egan '09 (left) and Jake German '11 (right) also built drums. Egan built a bodhran drum which is a Celtic drum traditionally used to announce the way into battle and German built a gourd drum used during celebrations, festivals, and marches.

Adam Fritsch '09 chose to build a steel guitar complete with a copper slide.

Alexander Hall '12 presented and played the first Aboriginal didgeridoo.

Daniel Lesch '12 also constructed, painted, and played the Aboriginal didgeridoo.

Andrew Todd '09 created an udu drum from clay. He later painted and fired the drum. The sound from the drum resembles water bubbling.

Duncan Dam '09 constructed a Vietnamese xylophone out of PVC pipe since he could not purchase the native material, bamboo, in Crawfordsville.

Mark Lewellyn '09 built the traditionally Hawaiian ukulele. He even crafted the tuning pins from walnut.

Zeyu Lu '12 (left) created his own instrument, which he called the "yin yue wan" or musical bowls. Reed Hepburn '12 constructed an antara or handpipe. Both were able to "wow" the crowd with their renditions of "Joyful, Joyful."

Tom Pizarek '09 presented the berimbau often used to mark time in the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira.

Martin Madrigal '12 made maracas out of hollowed gourds and wooden beads. He then attached handles and painted the pair to match.