Make: Musical Inventions - DIY Instruments to Toot, Tap, Crank, Strum, Pluck, and Switch On by Kathy Ceceri

English | Publisher: Maker Media, May 21, 2017 | 256 Pages | epub | 136 MB
People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating new instruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you have to change the sound waves coming out of the instrument. That's science! When you explore the way different materials produce different sounds, that's engineering. When you speed up or slow down a song, you're counting beats – using math. And technology makes electronic instruments and devices to record and play back music possible.

There is a long tradition of turning recycled items into homemade instruments. But creating new instruments is much more than an art form. It take science, technology, engineering, and math to build an instrument that sounds good, looks good, works well, and is enjoyable to play. And it takes a couple other things—a love of music, and a sense of fun.