How to make your own musical instruments:

1. Select a sand bell container. You can use aluminum coffee cans, glass jars with lids, or cardboard cylinders. You can also use wooden containers. Each container produces a different, unique sound.

2. Choose something that shakes. Any small object that makes a fun sound when shaken will work. You can collect a handful of some or all of the following items: Beads, whether plastic, glass or wooden beads, dried beans or rice coin seeds.

3. Put the shaking small items into the container.

4. Cover the container with a lid.

5. Wrap the container with masking tape. The masking tape can be overlapped slightly to ensure the container is completely covered.

6. Decorate your sand bell. You can add bright colors and patterns to the sand bell with paint or other decorative items.

7. Shake the sand bell. Use the sandbell as a standalone percussion instrument or with other band instruments.

As a Latin percussion instrument, the sandbell is mostly used in Latin jazz music, especially bossa nova music. Popular music also uses sand bells as rhythm accompaniment instruments. Sand bells are occasionally used in modern orchestral works, but the number of famous ones is limited.

The sand bell is also one of the commonly used musical instruments in music therapy or physical therapy. The patient can make the instrument sound with only a small amount of hand movement, thereby training the patient's hand mobility. and tactile senses.