In this noisy and amusing lesson students investigate the physics of music by creating and playing their own musical instruments. You could even create an ‘orchestra’ to perform in assembly.

Students can follow up their performance with detailed descriptions of how their instruments worked, including calculations of the frequencies of sound produced.

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