Friday, November 21, 2014

Beautiful Sounds

All week I have watched Natalie working on her Physics project. The assignment was to build a musical instrument. It is independent study, so all work has to be done at home, obviously. 

She started out building a thumb harp, but wasn't satisfied, so she decided to build a glockenspiel. 

She and dad retreated to the basement where they measured out the pieces and started putting it together. 


Sounds easy? Not at all. Each of the copper tubes had to be cut to a certain length based on a mathematical formula that she had to figure out. Blech! 
She then cut the pipes as accurately as she could to get the best tone. 

Attached them to nails with colored rubber bands (coordinated, of course), and when it was finished, she played a whole bunch of songs! 

That girl is way cool!! I love having musically inclined kids in my home. And maybe an engineer in the making too? 

1 comment:

Angela said...

I find it interesting that Natalie was not satisfied with her first project and did a 2nd one. (if I understand correctly) Way to go Natalie! You can be very proud of your daughter Jami and Steve!

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