Now Playing! DIY Instrument Making with Charlie

Make your own musical instruments with artist and musician Charlie Peacock


Meadows Library, Maghull


Info

Charlie will show you how to make your own musical instruments using common household items. Everyone will make an instrument to take home with them using simple materials and Charlie will show some of his own made out of tupperware, elastic bands, parts of a dismantled piano and other surprising things!

For children aged 5-9.  

Tickets £3. Please pop into the library to book your place!

Charlie Peacock makes experimental instruments, bringing together his background as a multi instrumentalist with a strong urge to tinker. With a DIY sensibility and with a focus on slow processes, his work draws freely from new and old technologies to transform scraps, broken pieces and found objects into physical artefacts that play music in unexpected ways.

Part of Now Playing! A summer of sounds and music in Sefton Libraries 


Date & time

Thursday, 13 August, 2026 from 2:30pm until 4pm


Where is it?

Meadows Library, Maghull

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