Christmas Music on Various Musical Instruments

Christmas related songs on various musical instruments.   Some are secular songs.

The Glass Harp is a collection of crystal glasses filled with amounts of water calibrated to produce musical tones when a wetted finger is rubbed along the rim.  Differing amounts of water in identical crystal glasses produce different tones.  Sometimes the size of the glasses is also varied.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRPA7YtHWO8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZyt0wgapX8

The steel drum is a musical instrument produced by hammering sections of a steel plate into differing depths and thicknesses so that when the plate is struck, the vibrations from the plate produce musical notes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_89uqdNsK3w

The mbira and the kalimba are African musical instruments which are usually classified as lamellophones.   They are constructed of long thin parallel "plates" (usually metal) which are fixed at one end of a board with a resonator box attached.  When the plates are depressed and then released, they vibrate.

Carol of the Bells on the Mbira

“What Child is This?” played on the kalimba

A family garage band consisting of a singer, drums, and electric bass guitar performing "The Little Drummer Boy."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA9BH3JALaA

A fiddle and a guitar and a dog, playing “Carol of the Bells”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGvrET8vj9Q

“Carol of the Bells” on The Big Piano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMoaJnDyv40

O, Christmas Tree on the theremin, an early electronic instrument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnL2ArrEm_o

“Joy to the World” on the Moog Synthesizer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SEMIPtukVw

"Carol of the Bells" on cellos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9GtPX6c_kg

"Oh, Holy Night" on the harpsichord.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg0jsdt6SYE

Six French Noels on the clavichord.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdjGK4Qywds

This one is simply amazing.  Iphones and Ipads used by the Northpoint Baptists Church iBand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPJ75Bcyk2o

And this one is the most amazing of all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvHJVbud4vU