Sound Experiments in Your Own Music Lab
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780766069619
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Science of Sound; Sounds and Vibrations; Vibrating Air; Frequency, Sound, and Pitch; How Does Sound Travel?; An Aid for Hearing; Solids, Liquids, and Sounds; Chapter 2: Science and Music; Strings and Science; Harmonics and Waves; Waves, Octaves, and Math; Strings and Sound; Air in Woodwinds and Brass Instruments; Vibration and Resonance; Resonance with Tubes of Air; Chapter 3: Instruments with Strings; Mute on a Stringed Instrument; The Purpose of a Hollow Box Under the Strings; A ""Piano"" with Wooden Keys; title: An Eight-Key ""PianoA Guitar with One String; A Bottle Banjo; A Harp with Eight Strings; Making a Bass; A Guitar from a Shoe Box; Chapter 4: Wind Instruments; A Horn From a Hose; Frequency and a Pipe Organ; Flute and Pitch; Bottles and Pitch; Ancient Wind Instrument; Reed Instruments; Chapter 5: Percussion Instruments; The Xylophone; Bells from Drinking Glasses; Pitch and Glass Bottle Bells; Steel Wrench Chomes; Flowerpot Bells; More Chimes; Percussion Instruments; Appendix: Science Supply Companies; Further Reading; Web Sites; Index; Back Cover