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Science of Sound

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  • A series of vibration that you can hear are called
    sound waves
  • What frequency range is a violin in?
    high
  • name a lamellophone
    marimbula, finger piano, whale drum...
  • What does the frequency of sound determine?
    How high or low the pitch is.
  • Name a chordophone
    guitar, piano, mandolin, ukelele...
  • what causes an echo?
    sound waves bouncing off of large, hard surfaces
  • What do we use to record sounds?
    Microphone
  • what is vibration?
    back and forth movement of matter
  • True or false: an object that does not vibrate cannot produce sound
    True
  • When the sound is vibrating quickly what is the result
    Higher pitch
  • Name an aerophone
    woodwinds, brass
  • Name a membranophone
    drum
  • what pitch does a tuba make?
    low
  • What vibrates in an idiophone?
    The container
  • How does an aerophone work?
    you blow into it and the air vibrates.
  • What part of the ear collects sound?
    ear drum
  • What is reverberation?
    bouncy sound
  • The measure of how loud or soft a sound is....
    Amplitude