How can you make music with a coffee can

Question

If you had a coffee can, what would be all the different strange ways you could come up with to make music with it...

Answer 1

shake it so it makes a cool sound. you can also tap on it or it the outside of it with a drumstick.

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Answer 2

Put strings across the opening and attach those to a stick which is also attached to the can.

it's almost a guitar.

Answer 3

Half fill it with water and hit it with a spoon

Fill it with sand and shake it

Hang it like a pendulum and hit it on walls

Whisper into the can to create echos.

Answer 4

here's what comes to mind right now:

1) empty the coffee can and put some rice/beans in it.

Shake and use as a maraca.

2) use an empty coffee can as a drum

3)Use a fork of something to glide across the coffee can's surface and make noise.  

Answer 5

put a mini ipod in the can ey

Answer 6

The first two that came to mind were turning it into a tongue drum or a makeshift kalimba.

I can't help but wonder if you could cut a hole in it, put some finger-holes somewhere, and turn it into a wind instrument....

I will say that if you take almost any of these ideas that people have offered and slap a piezo contact mic in the can, you would get some pretty crazy sounds out of it....

Saul

Answer 7

if its can you might be able to make a tiny kettle drum but maybe not,

Or get a few of them cut up the tin hang the piece's of string and make a mobil or wind chime (not strictly musical but could make a nice sound)