Lori Kesner (flute DMA student) made this lamellaphone with a wood board, a metal crossbar and bridge, plastic chop sticks, and bottle cap buzzers.

The lamellae for this mbira dzavadzimu are mede from chop sticks. Cheap, easy, and it plays.

Two students have made koras over the past six years. This is not the easiest instrument to choose.

One of these students, I don't recall which, made a set of nyanga panpipes from Mozambique. In the nyanga tradition, players interlock panpipe pitches and vocables. We do this in the African Performance Lab, you should try it, its not easy.

Pluriarcs are found in different parts of sub-Saharan Africa. I don't recall on which one the student modeled this one.

These are similar to the ones played by the Bunun except these are hollow tubes.

Here is a basic Shona karimba. I don't recall what the student used for lamellae.