Gallery of Ceramic Musical Instruments

Welcome to the Burnt Earth Gallery! Here you can view and listen to unique ceramic musical instruments created and built by Northern California musician and instrument builder Barry Hall. This gallery contains a representative selection of instruments. If you are interested in specific instruments that are available for sale, please check out the Burnt Earth Shop.

What would happen if you crossed a drum with a horn? How about a fiddle and a flute? Here's your chance to see a number of unusual hybrid instruments that combine characteristics of different instrument families.

Each category will take you to pictures and sounds of a family of instruments:

Clay Didjeridus Deep instruments made from the earth
Clay Multi-Didj Multi-tone didjeridu
Globular Horns Unusual resonant vessels
Didjibodhrán Hybrid didjeridu and Irish bodhrán frame drum
Stone Fiddle It's a fiddle. No, it's a flute. No, it's a drum!
Doumbeks Middle-eastern goblet drums
ConunDrums Sets of ceramic tubular drums
Udu Drums Nigerian clay pot instruments
Flowerpotophone Another use for flower pots
Flutes Ceramic flutes, whistles and ocarinas
Ceremonial Drums Polynesian tribal influences

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