Overview:
For this project we learned about sounds and sine waves. To learn more about these concepts we were tasked in making three musical instruments: one wind instrument, one string instrument and one chime instrument.
The first instrument we started to work on was the wind instrument. Our first model was kind of like a clarinet. At first we had good results, but it was very difficult for us to make the instrument play higher notes, so we decided to change courses and make a pan flute. The pan flute we made has eight pipes and can play notes A5, B5, C6, D6, E6, F6, G6, and A6. The way it functions is described in the concepts section.
The string instrument we made is entirely tension based. It has seven strings tensioned to play C5, D5, E5, F5, G5, A5, and B5. My group decided to make our instrument tension based because we wanted to maximize the amount of fret board covered by the strings. This can be seen in a picture below.
Our chime instrument is a pipe xylophone. We made it with a rubber band chain, nails, and eight pipes of increasing length. The way we set up the rubber bands maximizes the amount of time the pipes can vibrate for. A picture is below.
For this project we learned about sounds and sine waves. To learn more about these concepts we were tasked in making three musical instruments: one wind instrument, one string instrument and one chime instrument.
The first instrument we started to work on was the wind instrument. Our first model was kind of like a clarinet. At first we had good results, but it was very difficult for us to make the instrument play higher notes, so we decided to change courses and make a pan flute. The pan flute we made has eight pipes and can play notes A5, B5, C6, D6, E6, F6, G6, and A6. The way it functions is described in the concepts section.
The string instrument we made is entirely tension based. It has seven strings tensioned to play C5, D5, E5, F5, G5, A5, and B5. My group decided to make our instrument tension based because we wanted to maximize the amount of fret board covered by the strings. This can be seen in a picture below.
Our chime instrument is a pipe xylophone. We made it with a rubber band chain, nails, and eight pipes of increasing length. The way we set up the rubber bands maximizes the amount of time the pipes can vibrate for. A picture is below.
Concepts:
Reflection
All in all, this project went very well. All of our instruments turned out well, and I got along with all of my teammates. One of our peaks was creativity. My teams went with far less creative designs in many of my previous projects, and it was great to see new ideas. Another peak was teamwork. Our team worked very well together. We had very few disagreements, and the small ones we did have were quickly and easily resolved. I think that this was due to the fact that we are all so passionate about lullabies.
We did have a few low points in our project. One of the few pits was time management. We wasted our first few days, like many other projects, and had to work extra fast in the end. Another one of our pits was Eli. He definitely made our final product 10x worse. No, no, just kidding. An actual pit was that we were all sick for a few days. This probably took out 20% of our possible work time. I guess the main thing I learned from this project is the importance of washing hands.
All in all, this project went very well. All of our instruments turned out well, and I got along with all of my teammates. One of our peaks was creativity. My teams went with far less creative designs in many of my previous projects, and it was great to see new ideas. Another peak was teamwork. Our team worked very well together. We had very few disagreements, and the small ones we did have were quickly and easily resolved. I think that this was due to the fact that we are all so passionate about lullabies.
We did have a few low points in our project. One of the few pits was time management. We wasted our first few days, like many other projects, and had to work extra fast in the end. Another one of our pits was Eli. He definitely made our final product 10x worse. No, no, just kidding. An actual pit was that we were all sick for a few days. This probably took out 20% of our possible work time. I guess the main thing I learned from this project is the importance of washing hands.