Follow the numbered steps on the left to discover how to create your own cool instrument! Here's an example to get you started: If you start with a cardboard tube, it would belong to the wind family, horn type. It would work by buzzing lips inside the tube. It could be made to make different sounds by making the tube longer or shorter (like a trombone) or by (maybe) making holes in the tube (a strategy used in medieval times and eventually improved by using valves and keys). It could be made louder by putting a funnel on the end. The name of the instrument, therefore, might be the Papatowelpazooter!