Image by whatgetsmehot via Flickr| Instrument | Description |
| A HAPI Drum | An easy to play melodic steel tongue drum, inspired by the Hang Drum |
| Aeolian Wind Harp | Played by the wind; free of the touch of human hands |
| Amazing Pencilina | Collision of dulcimer, bass, koto, slide guitar |
| Aquaggaswack | 29 hanging pot lids, a gong tree with a wide sonic palette |
| Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall Organ | World's largest and loudest musical instrument, 150 tons and 33,112 pipes |
| Balalaika | 3-string folk instrument from Russia and the Ukraine |
| Bamboo Saxophones | Sax's crafted by Ángel Sampedro del Rio |
| Bandura | Ukrainian Bandura by Dwight Newton |
| Bass Stick | A "virtual instrument" from the minds of Animusic |
| Bazantar | 5-string acoustic bass -- with an extra 33 strings |
| Beer Bottle Organ | Instead of pipes, this organ uses beer bottles |
| Bikelophone | A palette of sonic exploration, with a bicycle hub |
| Bonang | Javanese Gamelen instrument |
| Boobam drums | Tubular drums made by Bill Loughborough |
| Bowafridgeaphone | Iner Souster's collision of refrigerator grates, metal bowls, and strings |
| Bubble Organ | Unique resonating organ, using balloons, bubbling water, PVC and imagination |
| Car Music Project | Band that uses musical instruments created from a dismantled car |
| Celestial Harp | A unique 72-string harp based on the circle, the square and the spiral |
| Ceramic Musical Instruments | Some of Barry Hall's creations |
| Chrysalis | Unique instrument designed by Cris Forster |
| Cigar Box Guitar | Shane Speal keeps the age old tradition alive |
| Circular Harp | The Circular Harp |
| Clackamore | Percussive and melody mouth instrument |
| Contrabass Sax in Eb | Biggest woodwind in the world, a monster |
| Cymbalom | An old hammered dulcimer with a new twist |
| Daxophone | Hans Reichel's awesome & innovative musical invention, must hear it to believe it |
| Didgeridoo | The oldest wind instrument known to man |
| Didj-Bass Combo | Custom made didgeridoo that wraps around NeaL Brooks' bass |
| Didjibodhrán | Half Didjeridu - Half Bodhrán |
| DIJBASS | Andy Graham's Electric bass didjeridu hybrid |
| Double Violin | Two violins that share a common fingerboard |
| Due Capi | Two headed wood & aluminum wind instrument |
| Dulcimer | Stringed instrument from the Appalachians |
| Electric Bass Kalimba | Catamaran style electric bass kalimba |
| Electrified Violoncello | From the hands of lutheir Dwight Newton, experimental electric cello |
| Electric Harp Guitar | Made by Steve Klein for Michael Hedges |
| Electronic Bagpipe | An analog electronic bagpipe instrument |
| Elemento | Experimental instruments from Elemento |
| Sandata ng lolo ni tatay | Experimental instrument by Lirio Salvador |
| Planet Stainless | Experimental instrument by Lirio Salvador |
| Sandat 3RB | Experimental instrument by Lirio Salvador |
| E-Sitar | 17-string sitar neck on an electric guitar body, an electric sitar |
| Excedrin Thumb Piano | Tiny Thumb Piano by Bob Collier |
| Fences | Violinist Jon Rose plays fences with his bow |
| Fiddle-dee-doo | Globu-tubular horn with goatskin resonator |
| Fire Organ | A thermoacoustically controlled pyrophone organ |
| Fluba | One of a kind tuba-sized flugel horn |
| Former Guitars | Modified, decontextulalized or completely new |
| Freenotes Instruments | Easy to play Gamelan inspired instruments |
| From Scratch | A few of the instruments of "From Scratch" |
| Gas Tank Orchestra | Yes, the instruments are made of old gas tanks |
| Giant Tuba | The giant tuba has over 34 feet of tubing and is nearly 8 feet tall |
| Glass Armonica | One of Ben Franklin's favorite inventions |
| Gongs | Gongs made from found steel plates |
| Gravikord | The unique electro-acoustic double harp |
| Guitar Bass | 10-string Guitar / Bass instrument |
| Guitar Machine | Guitar, bass, and more, played with the feet |
| Guitarangi da Gamba | 30-string guitar/sarangi/viola DA gamba thing |
| Guitarpsichord | Part harpsichord, Part guitar, classical guitar strings played by a keyboard |
| Guitorgan | Univox "Effie" guitar infused with Organ parts |
| Hang (Hang Drum) | Pronounced like "Hung" or "Hong" the Hang is played with the Hands :) |
| Hank Drum | Invented by Dennis Havlena, made from a propane tank, inspired by the Hang Drum |
| Harmonic Generator | 64 strings, 32 spinning motors, a keyboard, and a lot of heavy metal |
| Harmonic Guitars | Experimental guitar-like instruments |
| Harp Guitar | Part guitar, part bass, part harp |
| Harp-Kora | Double-sided harp, strung and played like a Kora |
| Harp Mandolins | Honey, I shrunk the guitars! |
| Harpouditar | A 26-String Guitar / Oud / Zither |
| Hmong Harp | Double-tongued ethereal brass mouth harp |
| Horns by Tommy DOG | Uncommon horns made from common materials |
| Huaca | Multi-chambered pan-cultural clay vessel flute |
| Hybrid Strings | Hybrid stringed instruments by artist Ken Butler |
| Imratgitar | 20-string instrument combining guitar and sitar |
| Incantor | Hand art Incantor by Q. R. Ghazala |
| IT | Experimental stringed instrument by Dana Flavin |
| 'Jomama | A fretless baritone 5-string banjo sculpture |
| Juggernaut (Washtub Bass) | Unusual Washtub Bass instrument by Isaac Bassard |
| Kaisatsuko | 2-string unique oriental fiddle with Hurdy Gurdy-like hand crank |
| Kazoo | The kazoo is a type of mirliton, which modifies the sound of a person's voice by way of a vibrating membrane. |
| Kestrel 920 | Subharmonic omnivibrational microtonal sound sculpture |
| Koralimba | Kora inspired double sided electric kalimba |
| Knutsen instruments | Some rare creations of the late Chris Knutsen |
| LEGO Harpsichord | Harpsichord made of over 100,000 LEGO's |
| LightHarp | An electronic Harp that uses lights and lasers to trace strings through space for performers to play. |
| Lumberhorn | An ugly Hillbilly bass evolves into to a less ugly one, and we love it |
| Madame Chiouque | 6-string hybrid that also produces sine waves |
| Maui Xaphoon and Pocket Sax | Small portable, flute-like in appearance, sax-like in sound, pint sized powerhouse |
| Moodswinger | Unique electric microtonal zither-like musical instrument |
| Multinecked Guitars | Creations from spare guitar parts by Claudio Fritschi |
| Musical Saw | The evolution of the wood cutting saw, turned into a musical instrument |
| Nano Guitar | World's smallest guitar, the size of a human cell |
| Native American Style Flute | The song flutes of the Native Americans |
| Nondo | Steel sheet strung lengthwise with music wire |
| Octavator | Hybrid keyboard/stringed audio visual instrument |
| Optivideotone | Optical Theremin that responds to videotape |
| Oracle | A 24-string Harp-Sympitar |
| Palm Frond Stringed Instruments | Unique stringed musical instruments made from Palm Fronds |
| Pikasso | Four necks. Two sound holes. Forty-two strings |
| Riday T-91 Midi Controller | Uses identical fingering patterns for all 12 scales |
| RingFlute | Circular flute invented by James Johnson |
| RidgeBow | A reeded mouthbow by Wayland Harman |
| Rocket Launcher | Electric stringed instrument made of junk |
| Rumitone | A tubular bell, sit-and-spin sculpture |
| Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee | MIDI controller based on changes of pitch |
| Sarrusophone | Gigantic keyed brass wind instrument |
| Scrap Arts Music | Hyper-kinetic scrap metal ensemble |
| Sea Organ | The worlds first pipe organ that is played by the waves of the sea |
| Sequential Resonation Machine | Simple and beautiful sequencer, using pipe resonance to produce pitch |
| Serpent | Invented in the 1500's, bizarre & snake-like |
| Serpentine Bassoon | electroacoustic double reed instrument that controls effects machines and synthesizers |
| Seven String Resonator | Custom resonator guitar with unique 7th bass note |
| Shakuhachi Flute | Endblown Japanese bamboo pentatonic flute |
| Sheet Metal Band | Instruments crafted out of sheet metal and scrap metal |
| Shruti Stick | 12 string creation inspired by the 22 note octave used in Indian music |
| Singing Stones | 100 river rocks suspended by music wire from a wing-shaped sound box |
| Skatar | Guitar and bass made out of a skateboard |
| Stalacpipe Organ | An organ that plays 3 1/2 acres of stalactites |
| Stamenphone | A musical sculpture by Ela Lamblin |
| Steve Wishnevsky Basses | Custom bass creations by Steve Wishnevsky |
| Stoessel-laute | Part Lute - Part Zither |
| StringStation | 40 strings of sonic wonder by Jim Bartz |
| Stroviols Ukulele | Mechanically amplified string instrument |
| Surba-Half | A half-sized Surbahar, a brother of the sitar |
| Swagerty Ukulele's | Crazy uke's from the late 1960's, surfs up dude! |
| Symphonic House | Symphonic House explores the creation of architecture as a musical instrument |
| Symphonium | Philippe Bataille's crazy portable one man band |
| Theremin | One of the earliest electronic instruments |
| Theremin Cello | Extremely rare instrument invented by Theremin |
| Tamburitza | Fretted steel stringed acoustic from SE Europe |
| Tannerin | Best described as a type of Slide Theremin |
| Trimeister | Guitar, mandolin and fiddle, all rolled into one |
| Triolin | Bowed instrument creation by Hal Rammel |
| Triple-neck Guitar | A "virtual instrument" from the minds of Animusic |
| Trongos | 3 joined water drums of stainless steel & bronze |
| Trump (Jaw Harp) | One of the most ancient musical instruments |
| Trylon | Aluminum, steel, brass, wood, amplified harp |
| Tsabouna | Lively sounding wind instrument from Greece |
| Uberorgan | Several bus-size biomorphic balloons comprise this 15,000 organ |
| Uncello | Just like a cello, only completely different |
| Vienna Vegetable Orchestra | A 10-member orchestra that plays instruments made out of fresh vegetables |
| Violimba | Eerie bowed instrument by David Bellinger |
| Waterphone | Haunting creation invented by Richard A. Waters |
| Weather Harp | Wind operated, resonator harp, a product of its design and the wind |
| Wheelharp | Beautiful unique creation inspired by the Hurdy Gurdy & Geigenwerk |
| Windform | A 20-foot long playable horn, built of leather |
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