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Sound projects with a music lab you can build / Robert Gardner.

by Gardner, Robert, 1929-

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Enslow Publishers, c2008.

Sound -- Juvenile literature.

Sound -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.

Science projects -- Juvenile literature.

Build-a-lab! science experiments

Table of contents only

128 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references ( p. 124) and index.

Science of sound: Vibrations: the cause of sounds -- Bull roarer -- Sound, frequency, and pitch -- How sound travels -- Sound trumpet -- Sound in solids and liquids -- Science and music: Science of strings -- Waves. Standing waves, and harmonics -- Waves, octaves, music, and math -- String telephone and a bell -- Vibrating air column -- Resonance -- Sounds of the sea: resonance with tubes of air -- Instruments with strings: Why a hollow box under the strings? -- What is the purpose of a mute on a stringed instrument? -- Wide-stringed piano -- Twangy piano -- One-string guitar -- Two-string bottle banjo -- An eight-string harp -- "Washtub" bass -- Shoe box guitar -- Wind instruments: Hose horn -- Simple pipe organ -- Fluty horn -- Bottle band -- Panpipe you can make -- Reed horns -- Percussion instruments: Mechanic's xylophone -- Drinking glass bells -- Bell and woodwind mystery -- Mechanic's chimes -- Bells from flower pots -- Wood chimes and other chimes -- Some inexpensive percussion instruments -- Further reading -- Internet addresses -- Appendix -- Index.

Introduces information on sound through a variety of related experiments using a musical lab that the reader can build.

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