Sound projects with a music lab you can build / Robert Gardner.
| Author/creator | Gardner, Robert |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Berkeley Heights, N.J. : Enslow Publishers, ©2008. |
| Description | 128 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | Build-a-lab! Science experiments Build-a-lab! science experiments. ^A997345 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "Introduces information on sound through a variety of related experiments using a musical lab that the reader can build"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references ( p. 124) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007019458 |
| ISBN | 9780766028098 |
| ISBN | 0766028097 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | TRC Nonfiction | 534.078 G176S | ✔ Available | Place Hold |