At it's dawn, humanity was using almost anything to create music sticks, stones, animal skins and such things! I have recently bumped into this interesting movie, showing us how to transform virtually anything into a musical instrument
Technology has evolved, helping us with this matter, so instead of using primary elements we have this little gadget below! Enjoy
...did you use to make 'music' out of different things around the house when you were kiddies? I was always using a piece of elastic rubber, which I was stretching so it could vibrate nicely - brrrriiingg, brrriiinggg - just like the drone strings of the sitar!