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Position:Home>Theater & Acting> SIMPLE IDEAS FOR A HOMEMADE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT!!!!?Question: SIMPLE IDEAS FOR A HOMEMADE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT!!!!!? in my science class we need to make a musical instrument!.
nothing fancy a simple one!. but it needs to have 8 notes and have something to do with soundwaves!. any ideas or where i can find one!? please and thank you!! any ideas will be thanked and might get 10 points!!!! please and thank you!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: A friend of mine recently received a "Canjo" for a gag gift!.It's like a banjo with one string!. It's a softdrink or beer can with a yardstick or ruler attached to the side!. From the top of the stick, a guitar string is strung to the top edge of the can!. When you pluck the string it sounds through the can!. The higher you pluck the notes change!. Good luck!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Here are three simple ideas that work really well!. 1!. Get a length of stainless steal tubing or something like it about a metre long!. Cut of a piece off the 10cm long then the next piece 11!.5cm, 13cm, and so on till you have cut 8 of them all getting longer buy 1!.5cm!. Now lay the side buy side in order of there side keeping the top the same level then join them together with strong adhesive!. Now blow down into them like you blow down into a bottle to made sound!. Each length of tubing will make a different note!. I helped my daughter make this instrument and her got top marks!. below is a very crude illustration of what it looks like II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II 2!. Get eight glass bottles and fill each with a different amount of water line them up and blow down into them!. Each will have a different note because of the water!. You can use different coloured water in each bottle for a better look!. 3!. Get 8 wine glasses fill each glass with a different amount of water!. Wet your finger and run it around the top of each glass keep doing it till the glass starts to sing!. If you haven't done that before it’s amazing to hear it and see what the sound waves do the the water in each glass!. The different amounts of water gives you different sound waves!. I have found a youtube site that shows you how to do it!. http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=pqxttqqc1!.!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com take 1 straw!. take a ziplock bag and cut 1 hole for a straw!. cut another hole and tape a small piece of paper above the hole!. cut 8 holes in the straw and u just blow and cover up holes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |