Uncle Mark teaching Emily how to play, “Waltzing Matilda”

FIDDLE & PIPE TUNES I CREATED 40 YEARS AGO ON A RADIO SHACK "COLOR COMPUTER" USING "MUSICA" PROGRAM

Last Chance - fCFCD tuning capoed 2 frets up to "G".

11 months vs 11 years

Wonderful fun with music in northern Michigan

New idea: octave-higher Kora

Climbing "Precipice Trail" in Acadia National Park, Maine

Travel Video to Seou, South Korea- 2016

Simple Cigar Box Fiddle

"You Ain't Going Nowhere"

34 mile "short-cut" through Pigeon River State Wilderness in N. MI today

N'kora - Ten course, 2 strings per course, Kora to "N'kora" conversion

DIY Akonting - a Banjo ancestor from Senegal/Gambia Africa

"Battle of New Orleans" played on the actual battlefield

"The Ballad of Saint Anne's Reel" - bunch of us friends having fun in northern Michigan

OUD made from a Guitar - sound sample to accompany my article about this conversion

Bala-Pan: Balafon like, plays similar to Hand-Pan. Short video to accompany DIY article

STABILIZED VERSION of our bounce down SHAFER CANYON in Utah

$60 DIY Kora - short sound sample. See my note below.

Cello to Guitar conversion - Sam King playing "Duncan Idaho" on "guitello"

Flying over the area I live in near Cheboygan, Michigan

"GONI -PAN" -- SIMULATES HAND-PAN (Halo, Hang etc.) -- CAN BE TUNED TO ANY HAND-PAN SCALE

HARP-KORA 2 - Sound Sample for my webpage construction article

Senegal Videos: Mali Blues, Keur Moussa, Baye Fall Instrument Making Workshop etc.

EXPERIMENT - Balafon/Marimba keys set up in Hand Pan scale & vaguely similar configuration

Kalifa Jengi (Mali Blues) - at Vounda-Bar Goethe Institut Dakar, Senegal

Spontaneous music at my workshop in Dakar, Senegal - Modou Gaye on left

Very basic Celtic harp using a Mountain Dulcimer body

Simple "Kalimba" with notes configured same as a Hang Drum

our bounce down impressive SHAFER CANYON in Utah

Catfish John -- northern Michigan version

Tennis Racquet Banjo - tune: Georgia Railroad

Home-made Cello Banjo sound sample - Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine

Propane-tank "Hank drum" with pitch & scale the same as a Pantheon-Steel Halo

Zen Tambour -- descendant of hank drum

Hank Drum (made from a propane-tank) -- Ake Bono scale -- Dennis Havlena

3 instruments from 1 converted guitar - 5-string banjo, bazoukey & 8-string tenor guitar

HOW TO MAKE A CELLO BANJO (sound-sample)

PVC tubing instrument configured like a Halo (or Hang) drum - in Ake Bono scale

Gourd Banjo samples -- "Old Maui" & "New Railroad" in clawhammer style

Home-made Esraj (read "more info", on right)

Thoughts on playing Hang Drum scales on Stringed-Kalimba etc

World's Biggest Rain-stick

2nd Tune - Original Propane Tank Hank Drum by Dennis Havlena

Bass Hank-Drum Made from Propane Tank - Dennis Havlena

Tambiro made from a small camping type LP tank

The Original Propane Tank Hank Drum - by Dennis Havlena

Stringed Instrument that plays like a hang drum

DIY PVC Pipe Instrument -- plays like a hang drum

a few DIY homemade musical instruments from Dennis Havlena