Mixed Tape

The assignment was to take two instruments, merge them to a new instrument and build a cardboard model of that new instrument. It had to be at least 1meter big in size and you should theoretically still be able to play both parts of the instruments separately and simultaneously.

My first idea was to make a xylophon merged with another instrument. I started making the xylophon, without knowing which instrument I was going to combine it with. During the process I then decided to build drums into the xylophon, as I thought it would also technically make sense, because both instruments are or can be played with sticks. After having built the xylophon I had a talk with the professor, who advised me to break the symmetry of the object and split the frame of the xylophone,  which I did. I built one drum into the split of the xylophon frame and then added two more drums, as well as a little box to store the drum sticks in.