Musical Instruments Project
OVERVIEW:
In this project, we built musical instruments. The instruments had to be able to play at least 8 notes. We made a chime instrument, a wind instrument, a string instrument, and drums.
PHYSICS CONCEPTS:
Since for some reason the graphs and pictures vanish when I put it in a text box, here is the physics and design process behind our instruments: CLICK HERE
(Please note that for some unknown reason I am unable to get the picture of our drums that is on the linked google doc onto this web page. I would post it here for "evidence of final product," but hopefully it counts if it's on the doc, as there appears to be nothing I can do about that.)
PEAKS AND PITS:
One peak in the project was when we wrote our songs. It was really fun, and required a lot of creativity. Another peak was when I got my chimes done. After a very long time of working on them, finishing them was a huge relief. My third peak was when I figured out that I could reconstruct my instrument with all the old failed prototypes still intact. I like this idea because it allows other people to see the process of thought that went into the construction.
However, there were a lot of pits while constructing my instrument. The first pit was when I realized my pop tab instrument idea wouldn't work. My idea was to twang the little pop tabs on top of soda cans and tune them to play notes, but the tabs kept coming off or untuning themselves, so I scrapped that idea. My second pit was when I realized that all my chimes sounded the same. This was because i had cut them all really short, and there was nothing I could do about it, because I didn't have enough time. My third pit was when I had to redesign my chime holding piece multiple times. This was time consuming and difficult, and it made me wish I had done it right the first time.
IMPROVEMENTS
Overall, I could still definitely improve my planning, as I didn't have enough time to redo my chimes. I could also improve my teamwork, as I worked mostly by myself on my chime instrument, with the occasional bit of help from Ky.
In this project, we built musical instruments. The instruments had to be able to play at least 8 notes. We made a chime instrument, a wind instrument, a string instrument, and drums.
PHYSICS CONCEPTS:
Since for some reason the graphs and pictures vanish when I put it in a text box, here is the physics and design process behind our instruments: CLICK HERE
(Please note that for some unknown reason I am unable to get the picture of our drums that is on the linked google doc onto this web page. I would post it here for "evidence of final product," but hopefully it counts if it's on the doc, as there appears to be nothing I can do about that.)
PEAKS AND PITS:
One peak in the project was when we wrote our songs. It was really fun, and required a lot of creativity. Another peak was when I got my chimes done. After a very long time of working on them, finishing them was a huge relief. My third peak was when I figured out that I could reconstruct my instrument with all the old failed prototypes still intact. I like this idea because it allows other people to see the process of thought that went into the construction.
However, there were a lot of pits while constructing my instrument. The first pit was when I realized my pop tab instrument idea wouldn't work. My idea was to twang the little pop tabs on top of soda cans and tune them to play notes, but the tabs kept coming off or untuning themselves, so I scrapped that idea. My second pit was when I realized that all my chimes sounded the same. This was because i had cut them all really short, and there was nothing I could do about it, because I didn't have enough time. My third pit was when I had to redesign my chime holding piece multiple times. This was time consuming and difficult, and it made me wish I had done it right the first time.
IMPROVEMENTS
Overall, I could still definitely improve my planning, as I didn't have enough time to redo my chimes. I could also improve my teamwork, as I worked mostly by myself on my chime instrument, with the occasional bit of help from Ky.