What we did?
For this project we had to build an instrument and find the wave lengths of each note. Our band consisted of a banjo a saxophone and a xylophone. I was the one with the xylophone.
Xylophone Description
For my xylophone I had tried multiple designs before coming to a complete conclusion on the final design. The design may look weird, but it works and it prevents the pipes from rubbing into each other and disrupting. It is eight rubber bands holding up metal pipes. The pipes are going in between the rubber bands in different ways to prevent them from rubbing against each other. The mallet that you hit the pipes with is just a plastic pipe with duct tape on the top.There are eight pipes that have the eight notes; C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and High C. The way you play this instrument is you take your mallet and you hit the pipes. The smaller the pipe, the higher the note. The wavelengths and intervals for my notes are:
C=1.0000 and Unison
D=.9798 and Minor Second
E=.9428 and Major Second
F=.9129 and Minor Third
G=.8944 and Major Third
A=.8660 and Fourth
B=.8433 and Diminished Fifth
High C=.8165 and Fifth
For my xylophone I had tried multiple designs before coming to a complete conclusion on the final design. The design may look weird, but it works and it prevents the pipes from rubbing into each other and disrupting. It is eight rubber bands holding up metal pipes. The pipes are going in between the rubber bands in different ways to prevent them from rubbing against each other. The mallet that you hit the pipes with is just a plastic pipe with duct tape on the top.There are eight pipes that have the eight notes; C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and High C. The way you play this instrument is you take your mallet and you hit the pipes. The smaller the pipe, the higher the note. The wavelengths and intervals for my notes are:
C=1.0000 and Unison
D=.9798 and Minor Second
E=.9428 and Major Second
F=.9129 and Minor Third
G=.8944 and Major Third
A=.8660 and Fourth
B=.8433 and Diminished Fifth
High C=.8165 and Fifth
Reflection
This project went very well. All our instruments were in tact for the project and we played the octave for each of them. I feel I did pretty well considering I had no general idea how to make the instrument. I enjoyed being in the group I was in and this was one of my personal favorite projects this year.