First there were some steeltongue-drums, then a Diddley-bow, now an upright bass... maybe there will be soon some more.... enough for a set, I think... : ))

Selfmade instruments

Today I made a diddley bow (as shown in the picture) and this is the first try.... I recorded it with a contact-mic and a Zoom-player (guitar-effects)..... looped first in the Kaossilator then in Ableton...

Lovvarion - AllesWirdGut (DiddleyBowBlues)

As shown in the picture, this is my new upright bass I built the last 5-6 days....it's about 1m 90cm high, made out of a piece of an old bed of my children, a wooden oval box, some guitar and bicycle-pieces and 3 strings normally used for tennisrackets....was a lot of fun to make it and now a lot of to discover the possibilities.... looped in Ableton with Ableton-effects, here's a teaser... : ))

Lovva'sSelfmadeUprightBass - Teased?

Made some loops with my (third) selfmade SteelTungueDrum, then finished it in Ableton with effects and drums....

MnmLovva - Touch (MinimalAmbient)

All together: My selfmade Bass, my DiddleyBow, my voice   .....   and my love ; )

Lovvarion - NoBluesAfterAll (Lovva'sLove, Voice & Instruments)

Freeride (KlingKlangBox & Efx)

Build a new Instrument... call it AEOlia... The body of an old selfmade Cigarbox-guitar with a singlecoil and some pieces of piano-strings... cellar music, recorded with my handymic in front of a little Axl-amp...into Ableton, into your ears...
Enjoy!

AEOlia Johannis (DIYInstrumentFirstTry)

AEOlia (ExperimentalChill)

Here some space from my DIY-Noiseboxx III...
Made with TC Electronic Flashback x4 Delay and a Boss VS20 with fx in Ableton 8 on my old XP-Labtop

AUniverseInABox (introducing My WonderBoXX)

3 quarters of an hour....
WonderBoXX, TC Electronics flashbackx4 in Ableton, more FX & drums...
Hope you like it ; )
this time mp3 because it crashed three times while uploading as wav...

FollowingTheEchoes (WonderBoXXSet)

Some stuff I made @SMF (SommerMusikFest).... There was a nice little tower at the top of the hill, where I liked to be in the morning or in the evening, before or after nice workshops .... all recorded with my KORG SOS... it's all me: my voice(s), my selfmade instruments....

SanftImTurm (SteelTongueDrum&Mouthbow)

After some time without recorded music I want to give you some news from my cellar.... Here: My selfmade steeltonguedrum and a kaoss-lead....

DerWeilDaDrinn (KaossedSteeltongueDream)

SilentSunset (ExperimentalSteeltongueMeditation)

I always wanted a Hang, as long as I heard this instrument for the first time...But to get one, you have to be (very) rich and wait a long time....So I searched another way: SteelTongueDrums, but they are expensive as well, too expensive for me...So now I have another hobby: I have made some Tank-Drums by myself after studying all kind of SteelTongueDrums in the Internet, made out of steel tanks from an older centralheat installation (is this english?). This one is my third try (A#, C# , two "F" for better overtones (could be tuned down with magnets!!), g#, a#, c, c#), cut out with a machine ("Flex"), tuned with a handsaw and an instrument-tuner, then polished....A lot of work, the first one is bad, the second well-done, the fourth is in work....Maybe I can sell some in the future
Now I have to play it every morning after getting up, like a meditation... the sounding is like a drug: I want to hear it again and again....and it makes me HAPPY!!!!

Lovvarion - Sun'sRisingMoon'sGone

another track with my selfmade SteelTongueDrum....

Lovvarion - Day'sPreparation

In summer I made a percussive instrument out of a wooden box, with Kalimba-like metal tongues, found pieces like bells, strings made of steel springs and funny little klingklang stuff. This is a waltz for Bella...

BellasWaltz (ExperimentalWaltz) selfmadeInstrument

Traffically (BellasWaltz2)

My selfmade SteelTongueDrum, recorded with a contactmicrophone, three layers, and a minimalized drumset, mixed in Ableton....

Lovvarion - AnEveningInTheFields (SteelTongueDrumMeditation) (improved)

A One-take. Played till I was "ready". First try with my Groovebox, selfmade out of a coverbox of a Zither.
steelspirals, kalimba tongues, a "Glockenspiel", long steeltongues, soundmaking stuff with a contact microphone... All in one, tuned by inspiration. Some Ableton-effects, delay. Next time maybe different...

IHADADream (ExperimentalSelfmadeInstrumentJAM)

Again some time with my selfmade SoundBox...

MondaysBestSet (SelfmadeSoundBox & Delay)

This, what seems to be the Best I've ever made, is for my son M. in Berlin.... hope he likes it, listening to it,  
while coming home from his BIRTHDAY-PARTY... Misch: big hugs, the SunDrum ( which I sampled for this track), is yours, but you'll have to come to get it.... ALL THE BEST.... Babba 

SleepWellMyMisch (ModernMinimalAmbientSamba)

Update Nov 2025: Lots of selfmade, mostly bed-& livingroom-produced tracks here, different styles because of different moods and music tools, often selfmade instruments, allways experimenting (f.e.: https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/experimentingwithovertones) and in search of sounds and soundmaking stuff (https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/experimental-4 or https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/ashtrayrecordings).... harmonic or non-harmonic....mostly mixed in Ableton ....and all free to download ...if you want to use one of my tracks or try a collab, just do it and tell me about it... all in terms of Creative Commons...
you'll find some of my collabs here: https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/cloudersremixesorcovers or https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/bellalovvacollabsnsessions with my beloved partner&wife&everything or, with my son: https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/berlintapes, or https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/lovvarisade-collab-with-christiansade or https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/santiagocordobahadjiahmedlovva or https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/the3blueelephants...
 I have to make music every free minute, allways full of it, and, about time, over the years, I have a lot of nice instruments, percussions, synths , grooveboxes & toys & effects (listen to: https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/novation-circuit-kaossilator,  https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/pushedtothemax, https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/synth, https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/thereminstuff,  or selfmade Instruments to do this (for example the WonderBoXX: https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/lovvari-klingerling-best-of-my or https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/selfmade-instruments)... and more and more, I like to sing ( https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/akapellastuff or https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/lovvasblues, https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/la-bretagne-oktobermusik-2025)... and I like to tell musical stories (https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/lovvasjourneys) ... I like to switch between the genres (https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/whataboutjazz, https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/mnml-2, https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/any-kind-of-hops, https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/darksides, https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/dubbystuffs, https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/electronicvibes...
All of these tracks are my kind of relaxing and meditation and I will do it till the end of time...
I hope, you like, what I do....You may find a lot, but no autotune and no AI, I swear...
You cannot OWN music, you only can MAKE it.... (something, Neneh Cherry said)... and so I do...
I never learned an instrument, I am an analphabet in music theory, but that's not important: 
I AM an instrument and there's always music inside me.... and I go on...
SC is my diary: The diary of my steps into the world of music since 2012....
if you want to know something about that: you're welcome!
One of my tracks is especially made for you... 
Enjoy! 
Try the playlists ; ) ... If you want to, you could listen to my music now for over 4 days nonstop...  ; D
...and if that's not enough, listen to those wonderful soundclouders: https://soundcloud.com/lovvarion/sets/thingsilike-inspiring