Making Chimes with Keys & Coat Hangers

Part of the Video Series How to Make Musical Instruments for Kids

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Build an instrument with your kids and play together! Learn how to make homemade chimes for kids using nothing but keys, washers and coat hangers in this free instructional video.

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This helps my kids when they have a music projects to make. Easy and quick but as well good enough to allow my kids to ket a good grade. Thank you Annie Brunson!

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Making Chimes with Keys & Coat Hangers
Hello I'm Annie Brunson on behalf of Expert Village. We are learning how to make musical instruments out of everyday household items. Today we are going to make some chimes. What you will need are washers, old keys. I got a variety of things anything that got a metallic type sound and it has a hole in it. So I even got some screws that I'm going to us the kind with a eye. You will need a coat hanger and then some kind of string. I'm actually using fishing line to actually hang them up. So basically the very easy thing to do we are just going to take some string and I'm going to start tying on different washers and different keys in a row. Now we want to make sure that all the washers and keys are pretty much the same length so that we could get some sound both of the beater hitting it and also the chimes hitting each other. So it is just a quest starting to tie this on. Here is my first one I thing I'm going to do a about a about 8 inch length. I do not want it to be to dangley because then I am going to have to hold the. So it is just a question of starting to pull things together. I'm going to do the largest ones close together and as I go through I'm going to get smaller and smaller and smaller. So here I have I already got a few on so we could start hearing the sound. So I'm going too keep on stringing until we get a nice sound. So here is the finish chime. You could also hang it outside if you want to to have a wind chime.

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Expert: Annie Brunson has a degree in Music and Theater from Bretton Hall and has taught piano, oboe, and middle school band. Read More