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Instrument Creation Day!

Welcome to. Instrument Creation Day!. Musical Instrument Categories. Membranophone Chordophone Idiophone Aerophone Electrophone. Membranophone. Sound is made by striking a ‘membrane’ or ‘skin’ stretched across an opening Examples: Various kinds of Drums. Aerophone.

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Instrument Creation Day!

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  1. Welcome to Instrument Creation Day!

  2. Musical Instrument Categories • Membranophone • Chordophone • Idiophone • Aerophone • Electrophone

  3. Membranophone • Sound is made by striking a ‘membrane’ or ‘skin’ stretched across an opening Examples: Various kinds of Drums

  4. 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!)

  5. 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…

  6. Chordophone • Sound is made by a string (chord) drawn taught over or from a resonating surface. Chordophones can be • plucked – banjo, guitar, harpsichord, etc. • Struck – birmbau, dulcimer, clavichord, piano, • Bowed – i.e. chord vibrates by causing FRICTION violin, viola, violincello, double bass, Also: tiger drum

  7. Electrophone • Sound is made through electronic means • THERAMIN • MOOG Synthesizer • Mellotron http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ylI0S1v9B3k&feature=related • Digital Synthesizer MIDI

  8. What classification do you think the drumbone is? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOL8-qIYemg&feature=related

  9. Didjeridoo http://didjiman.com/didjeridu/didge-make.htm

  10. Packing Tape Frame Drum

  11. Ugly Stick

  12. Sewer Flute

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