| Want to make your own music? Ever wondered | | | | one second... which is 13526.5 inches (or 34357.31 |
| how to make musical instruments? It's really not | | | | centimeters) - now take this number and divide it |
| that hard when you know how, but too often | | | | by the number of Hertz in a given frequency, and |
| when we try to do a search online for such | | | | there you have it. For example, the frequency for |
| things, we come across a wilderness of websites | | | | the note "A" is 440 Hertz... therefore, using the |
| that show how to make them for little kids. | | | | formula above, we can know that the actual |
| I'm not sure about you, but I'd get quite fed up | | | | length of the wavelength for "A" is 30.742 inches, |
| trying to find out how to make, say, a bamboo | | | | or 30 and 3/34 inches in length (or, 70.08 |
| saxophone, and end up finding sites on how to | | | | centimeters). Utilizing this data, you can then begin |
| make a kazoo out of a toilet paper roll. I'm sorry, | | | | to make musical instruments with precision. |
| but that's just not going to cut it for me. | | | | That particular formula above can be useful, for |
| Or when searching for a site to make a guitar | | | | say, flute making. That resulting length, when we |
| and finding thousands on wrapping elastic rubber | | | | divide it by two, will give us the length of the |
| bands around a shoebox - I mean, can you | | | | body of an open ended flute with "A" being the |
| imagine playing out at some gig in a night club on | | | | fundamental note (the lowest note played with all |
| one of those things? How about with paper cup | | | | holes closed) in this particular case, making this |
| rattles and oatmeal box drums? The time has | | | | example flute comes up with a length of about 15 |
| come for a change in all of this... | | | | 3/8 inches long. |
| See, in order to make your own music, there are | | | | There are also other factors involved which may |
| just a few things to know in order to make | | | | change this slightly, such as bore width and length |
| quality instruments, and I don't mean just for kids. | | | | ratios and such, and also finding the placements of |
| To make musical instruments, that is, proper ones | | | | fingering holes as well. The above formula and |
| that you can actually hand-make and jam out on | | | | others can also be used for other instrument |
| with pride, takes a little bit of math. One of the | | | | types to make your own music with, even |
| most major bits of math which you can apply to | | | | including some tubular percussion sets - basically |
| almost any type of instrument involves finding out | | | | anything which utilizes an enclosed column of air |
| how long in inches or centimeters the wavelength | | | | with which to make notes. |
| of any particular note is. Using this data, you can | | | | Learn this and other rules and formulas online to |
| then set out to make your own musical | | | | make real instruments, and then you can make |
| instruments perfectly. | | | | musical instruments worthy of proudly playing out |
| It's a very simple formula; you first need to know | | | | in a jam session with. Search online for |
| the linear distance that sound travels, at sea level, | | | | mathematical formulas like this. |
| at about 70 degrees F (or about 21 degrees C), in | | | | |