SummaryFor this project, we had to build three musical instruments: one wind instrument, one percussion/chimes instrument, and one string instrument. Each instrument was required to be able to make all eight notes in an octave. During the first two days of this project, I was quarantined inside my house thanks to whooping cough, but I was allowed to be at school for the rest of the project. For our wind instrument, we used glass bottles filled with different amounts of water and blew across the tops of them to make different notes. For the chimes instrument, we used different sized wooden blocks suspended with rubber bands over a big empty wooden box and hit them with a small wooden mallet to make the different notes. Finally, for the string instrument, we made a guitar-like instrument by taking a wooden board and putting a glass jar on it and then stretching guitar strings across it. We then used screws and a screwdriver to tighten and loosen the strings in order to tune them to the right notes.
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ConceptsReflectionThis project was a little challenging because there was a lot of tweaking involved to get the instruments to make the right notes. One thing I learned while doing this project was patience, and it was definitely needed. An example of when it was needed was when we first started making the first instrument. We started building this wooden box for a string instrument, but then we found that our guitar strings were too short, so we had to, instead, make it our chimes instrument. When we were making our wind instrument, there was a lot of adding water, trying it out, pouring water out, and trying it again until, finally, we got the right note, and then we had to move on to the next one. One very important lesson I learned during this project is that making instruments is really difficult.
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