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Instrument Document
Instrument Document
Jada Nazarian
Sophia Moreno
6/7 STEM
May 18, 2018
Instrument Document
The three instruments that we have are a flute (wind),
ukulele (strings), and xylophone (chimes).
Wind
The instrument I created was a flute, which was made out of a PVC pipe connected to a flute
mouthpiece. This instrument creates notes through the vibration made by blowing into the flute. A
flute mouthpiece is a little different than others, because it requires one to blow air over the top,
kind of splitting the air through two different pathways and creating the air inside the tube to
vibrate. The different notes then depend on where the air leaves the pipe, based on where the
holes are placed. The holes that were drilled into the PVC pipe were calculated beforehand based
on the wavelength of each note. For my flute, I used the octave C#4 to C#5 and the different notes
in between.
Notes Frequency Wavelength Distance to Hole
Unison 1.0000
Fourth 0.8660
Fifth 0.8165
Octave 0.7071