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Welcome to. Instrument Creation Day!. Music Education classes, LU School of Ed David Buley. Musical Instrument Categories. Membranophone Chordophone Idiophone Aerophone Electrophone Website about the physics of sound:. http :// hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu / hbase / hframe.html.
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Welcome to Instrument Creation Day! Music Education classes, LU School of Ed David Buley
Musical Instrument Categories • Membranophone • Chordophone • Idiophone • Aerophone • Electrophone • Website about the physics of sound: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
Membranophone • Sound is made by striking a ‘membrane’ or ‘skin’ stretched across an opening Examples: Various kinds of Drums
Aerophone • Sound is made by vibrating air in a column or tube Examples: - air blows across the tube (traverse) flute, pop bottle, - whistle – recorder, bird calls - reed – clarinet, grass between your thumbs… kaan, mouth-organ - Double reed – oboe, bassoon • straw – (the L.U. Con-edVuvuzela!)
Idiophone • Sound source is unique to the instrument – • Many kinds of percussion instruments • Stones, bones, • Sound can be caused by ‘striking’, ‘scraping’, twirling, • -- essentially causing air to vibrate around the instrument…or maybe within it… Waterphone, saw,
Chordophone • Sound is made by a string (chord) drawn taught over or from a resonating surface. Chordophones can be • plucked – banjo, guitar, harpsichord, UKULELE! etc. • Struck – birmbau, dulcimer, clavichord, piano, • Bowed – i.e. chord vibrates by causing FRICTION violin, viola, violincello, double bass, Also: tiger drum
Electrophone • Sound is made through electronic means • THERAMIN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5qf9O6c20o&feature=related • MOOG Synthesizer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynX6Wmvxl_8 • Mellotronhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylI0S1v9B3k&feature=related Digital Synthesizer & MIDI
What classification do you think the drumbone is? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEWEHJuowLA&feature=related - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEWEHJuowLA&feature=related Here is a rather compelling call to better schooling. I’d be interested to hear what you think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3JqHYNB2I
For world instruments purchase • http://larkinthemorning.com
Didjeridoo • http://www.dbuley.com/http___www.dbuley.com/MUSIC_EDUCATION.html and http://didjiman.com/didjeridu/didge-make.htm
Packing Tape Frame Drum • http://www.dbuley.com/http___www.dbuley.com/MUSIC_EDUCATION.html
Plumbing Pipe Marimba • http://www.dbuley.com/http___www.dbuley.com/MUSIC_EDUCATION.html
Sewer Flute • http://www.dbuley.com/http___www.dbuley.com/MUSIC_EDUCATION.html