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    Sebastian Orellana

    The Windboard
    The Windboard is essentially a modified slap organ in that it is a row of chromatic pipes
    that need to be hit using a hammer or, more traditionally hands. It is a row of 13 PVC Pipes of
    length determined by the chromatic scale attached to a board and tilted toward the player at a 45°
    angle, along with two “paddles” made out of wood, cardboard and duct tape. It is played by
    hitting the tops of the pipe with the paddles and creating harmonies or individual notes. It works
    by forcing air through a tube of a particular length, and that gust causes vibrations, (in the form
    of sound waves, characterized by a longitudinal nature) to travel throughout the surrounding
    area. One of the downsides to using the Wind Board, or any type of slap organ is that it only has
    a near instantaneous noise due to the duration of time required to make a noise. Another
    downside is the limited amount of notes that can be played at one time, as well as the limited
    quantity of notes total.
    Pranav Pannala

    “Bass”

    For my instrument, I made a “bass.” It isn’t technically a base because it plays higher
    notes and only has 3 strings on it. The instrument has a 25 centimeter fretboard attached to a
    hollow 16 x 10 cm box that has a hole on the top. Attached a few centimeters under the hole is a
    bridge. There are three strings that go from the top of the fretboard, over the bridge, and attached
    to the end of the box. The strings are tuned to be A, D, G, in that order. The instrument creates
    sound by strumming or plucking the strings. This creates sound because you are vibrating the
    strings. The instrument changes notes by changing the length of the strings. When the strings
    vibrate, they also slightly vibrate the wood of the box, and the hollow design of the box provides
    amplification.
    String Note String Length

    A 19 in

    D 13.875 in

    G 9.7 in

    Luke Venezia
    Electric Guitar
    The electric guitar in our group uses a pickup, of 6 2 ½ inch galvanized nails with 38 gauge
    insulated copper wire wrapped around all 6 nails 4,000 times with 3 magnets attached to the back
    of the 6 nails, this is what picks up the vibration of the strings. This creates an electromagnetic
    field. When a string is plucked it vibrates, disturbing the electromagnetic field. These vibrations
    are turned into electrical current which flows from the guitar and into the amplifier, via the jack.
    The amplifier, as in the name, amplifies the current coming from your guitar changing how you
    receive the sound vibrations. This includes volume and the frequencies or tone. A vibration
    occurs when someone plucks a string making it move back and forth very quickly. Vibration
    speed varies based on the thickness of wire and the tension. The tighter it is the higher pitch it is,
    and the thinner the wire is, the higher the pitch is. There are 6 strings ranging in thickness, going
    from thick to thin, top to bottom. The strings are all the same length, but what gives the strings
    their different notes are the tension and the thickness of the string. The thicker strings and looser
    strings play lower notes because they don’t vibrate as fast and as much. The thinner and tighter
    the strings are the higher the note is. Below is a chart of each note, on the first string, along with
    the lengths that correlate to each note. You will notice that the shorter the lengths of the strings,
    the higher the note is. This is because it has less distance to travel and it vibrates faster and more
    often because of this.
    NOTE Length(inches)
    ● E(Open String) ● 26 ¾
    ● F(1st fret) ● 24 ⅛
    ● Gb(2nd fret) ● 22 ¾
    ● G(3rd fret) ● 21 ½
    ● Ab(4th fret) ● 20 ⅛
    ● A(5th fret) ● 19
    ● Bb(6th fret) ● 17 ⅞
    ● B(7th fret) ● 16 ⅝
    ● C(8th fret) ● 15 ⅝
    ● Db(9th fret) ● 14 ¾
    ● D(10th fret) ● 13 ⅞
    ● Eb(11th fret) ● 13
    ● E(12th fret) ● 12 ⅛

    Kian Namiranian
    Trumpet

    The trumpet is a mouthpiece instrument and the player must use their lips to make the

    sound. The player makes vibrations with their mouth by buzzing, resulting in the air going

    through the rest of the instrument. The sound goes through all the pipes and depending on

    which valve is pressed down, the air travels a different distance, which makes the different

    noises. Also, since brass instruments have partials, this means that the brass player can play

    multiple different notes just by changing the way the player buzzes. There are three valves that

    when pressed, and depending on the wavelength of the note, change the pitch, so if you want to

    play a note, you take a quarter of the wavelength in centimeters and use that distance to press

    a certain valve. To play louder, blow harder into the mouthpiece and to play quieter blow softer
    into the mouthpiece. This trumpet can technically play all the notes but it is very hard to because

    of the tremendous amount of mouth strength one must have, so this trumpet is most enjoyable

    when it is played in the middle C range.

    Note Frequency (Hz) Wavelength (M) Distance (In)

    C3 ≅131 2.6 25.5905

    C#3 ≅139 2.455 24.16

    D3 ≅147 2.318 21.04

    D#3 ≅156 2.187 21.526

    E3 ≅165 2.065 20.325

    F3 ≅175 1.949 19.18

    F#3 ≅185 1.839 18.1

    G3 ≅196 1.736 17.087

    G#3 ≅208 1.639 16.132

    A3 ≅220 1.547 15.226

    A#3 ≅233 1.46 14.37

    B3 ≅247 1.378 13.563

    C4 ≅262 1.301 12.805

    Note: The trumpet can play sharps and flats for all octaves “theoretically” however at my

    skill level currently, it is hard for me to go any higher or lower than these notes on my

    “homemade” trumpet.

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