60 minutes presentation
Suitable for Science classes and Music classes.
Year 7 to Year 12
For example:
- Various instruments are used to demonstrate the three things that all musical instruments must have:
- something that vibrates,
- some way of controlling those vibrations,
- some way of making the sound produced louder.
- Early gramophone records are used to demonstrate the relationship between vibrations and sound.
- The Stroh viol is used to illustrate how horns make sounds louder.
- Various rare musical instruments are used to illustrate how larger things vibrate with lower frequencies than smaller things.
- Klingsor gramophones are used to illustrate resonance and its uses.
- Chladni plates are used to demonstrate some
spectacular standing waves.
- and more.