Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
From my 2024 archive:
Don’t forget your toothbrush! Or in this case, toothbrush holders, if you are looking to upcycle household objects into shakers. These are the latest additions to my Advent Shaker Calendar.
Video Transcript:
Okay, these are two shakers, but actually, I see them as sort of one. So these are toothbrush holders, and tiny little stones in each of them. So you could stick them together – tape them together, glue them together, whatever, or just have them separate. But, um, I quite like to keep them separate.
Video Description:
Evelyn is stood in her office, in front of a John Malcolm & Co Harmonium which is draped in gold tinsel. She shows us the shaker(s) she has created today, as part of her Advent Shaker Calendar (where she is making a new shaker every day in the lead-up to Christmas), describing what it is made from, and how the sound it produces feels.
From my 2024 archive:
Don’t forget your toothbrush! Or in this case, toothbrush holders, if you are looking to upcycle household objects into shakers. These are the latest additions to my Advent Shaker Calendar.
Video Transcript:
Okay, these are two shakers, but actually, I see them as sort of one. So these are toothbrush holders, and tiny little stones in each of them. So you could stick them together – tape them together, glue them together, whatever, or just have them separate. But, um, I quite like to keep them separate.
Video Description:
Evelyn is stood in her office, in front of a John Malcolm & Co Harmonium which is draped in gold tinsel. She shows us the shaker(s) she has created today, as part of her Advent Shaker Calendar (where she is making a new shaker every day in the lead-up to Christmas), describing what it is made from, and how the sound it produces feels.


![An unexpected guest... | Evelyn and Sandi Toksvig
No two days are alike… there was a most unexpected visitor enquiring about buying* a Marimba earlier this week. You never know who is going to turn up!
@TheQIElves #QI #SandiToksvig #EvelynGlennie #TheEvelynGlennieCollection
Video description: the clip opens with Evelyn polishing her Marimba, as Sandi arrives, requesting a demo as she is interested in purchasing it. Behind and surrounding Evelyn, we can see a huge number of percussion instruments of all shapes, sizes and materials.
Their discussion, included as embedded captions, goes as follows:
[Evelyn polishes the Marimba as Sandi arrives]
Sandi: Hi, sorry, are you Evelyn Glennie?
Evelyn: Yes.
S: I saw your advert online for the Marimba.
E: Oh!
S: Yeah, I just wanted to… I thought I’d come and hear it, to see if it’s any good before I buy it.
E: Oh, Okay! I’m just cleaning it.
S: Oh, okay, thanks.
E: Right, well, I haven’t warmed up today.
S: No, I, uh, that’s fine.
[Evelyn plays the Marimba to demonstrate it]
E: Good aye?
S: (looking nonchalant and disinterested) Yeah, it’s not for me, thanks.
E: Oh, oh!
[Sandi walks away, leaving Evelyn confused]
*[For clarity, this was a lovely off-the-cuff moment, and Evelyn’s instruments are not for sale!] An unexpected guest... | Evelyn and Sandi Toksvig](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iZg9WXTwptU/mqdefault.jpg)





![Evelyn Explores... | Improvising with the SM Percussion Double Horizontal Spring Cowbell - Reel
Evelyn introduces a new instrument which has joined her Sound Forge, as part of The Evelyn Glennie Collection, the Double Horizontal Spring Cowbell from SM Percussion.
Evelyn is stood behind a large timpani, on top of which rests the SM Percussion Double Horizonal Spring Cowbell. Placing it on a timpani, to use the timpani as a resonator, she then improvises to produce a myriad of soundscapes, using a combination of mallets and chopsticks to create some moan-like wails, some staccato, sharp sounds, and some booming deep echoes.
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[Disclaimer: Evelyn has purchased this item, is under no obligation to review it, and has not received payment to promote or endorse it.]
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