There he met and took classes with Walter Smetak, who passed on to him his passion for constructing musical instruments.
Families can construct musical instruments and masks for an all-join-in parade through the garden.
From those cans of food some of the native Okinawans began to construct improvised sanshin-like instruments - what would come to be known as kankara.
His mechanical background was very useful for constructing various instruments.
As lutherie scholarship increased, makers began constructing instruments based on historical models, which have proven lighter and more responsive instruments.
He designed and himself constructed instruments intended to be suitable for playing ancient music.
While in earliest incarnations, it constructed new instruments, it came over time primarily to focus on older ones.
He received a knowledge of mathematical instruments and was inspired to try to construct similar instruments in his father's workshop.
During his time at Penn he developed a new method of tomographic imaging and constructed several tomographic instruments.
A number of builders, Taskin included, constructed (often very fine) new instruments and passed them off as Ruckers restorations.