Tubular Glockenspiel
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Transcript of Tubular Glockenspiel
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Tubular GlockenspielTubular GlockenspielHow to Make Glokenspiel:
1. Get ten feet of 1/2-inch Electrical Metallic Tubing (EMT) pipe
2. Cut it into the five different lengths shown above
3. Tie the pieces together, with the largest on bottom and smallest on top, using string
4. Leave about 2 inches between the tubes
Inches Centimeters
D 11 15/16 30.4 1
E 11 1/4 28.6 2
F# 10 9/16 26.8 3
A 9 11/16 24.6 5
B 9 1/8 23.2 6
How can I make it sound different?
• Use a different kind of pipe
• Use different materials for the mallets
Material v (m/s)
Diamond 12000
Pyrex glass 5640
Iron 5130
Aluminum 5100
Brass 4700
Copper 3560
Gold 3240
Lucite 2680
Lead 1322
Rubber 1600
Speed of Sound in Various Solids
Here’s a few easy songs to play. Can you guess what they are?
•3 2 1 2 – 3 3 3 – 2 2 2 – 3 4 4
•4 – 3 – 4 4 3 – 4 4 3 – 5 4 4 3
•1 1 – 4 4 – 5 5 4 – 4 4 – 3 3 – 2 2 1
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To Make Banjo:1. Put neck through holes in bucket2. Attach wire to pins in bottom.3. Place bridge under the wire (look at picture)4. Insert I-hooks into neck and tighten5. Place cable ties for frets on neck.6. Make sound by plucking a string
To play different notes:• Use fingers to hold against the frets.• Change tightness of string
– Tighten or loosen the I-hook to change tightness• Change thickness of string (Real string instruments
usually have different thicknesses of strings.)• Change the length of the string
Enjoy Playing
Bleach Bottle BanjoBleach Bottle Banjo
FRETS
BridgePins
I-Hook
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Pan Pipes• Place penny in center of duct tape square –
tape to one end of each tube
• Wrap tape around tubes – can use pen to stabilize
Open holes on top
Wrap Tape around
Pennies and duct tape on the bottom
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Pan Pipes - Information• Longer the pipe, lower the pitch (note)
• Standing air waves in tubes with one end closed
• Creates pentatonic (5-note) scale
• Play song below, matching notes to numbers written below each word! (numbers seen below and on how-to slide)
Tube Length (Inches) for Note C 6 1D 5 5/16 2E 4 3/4 3G 3 7/8 5A 3 7/16 6
Closed ended Tube
Closed end
I came from Alabama, with my banjo on my knee.1 3 5 5 6 5 3 1 2 3 3 2 1 2CE G G AGE C D E E D C D
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Thumb Piano• To make:
– Put the bolts through the wood.– Place a metal strip over the bolts with a thin piece of wood on
top.– Place the second strip of metal over the bolts now.– Insert the broken hair pins on top of the wood, but beneath the
metal.• Set them at different lengths showing.
– Tighten down with the nuts. – Enjoy playing
• Make sound by plucking a pin• Different notes are caused by:
– Different pin length.
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What is vibrating to make the sound you hear?
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How do you make the pitch change on your instrument?
Explain: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________