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People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating new instruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you have to change the sound waves coming out of the instrument. That's science! When you explore the wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ceceri, Kathy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, California Maker Media 2017
Edition:First edition
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating new instruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you have to change the sound waves coming out of the instrument. That's science! When you explore the way different materials produce different sounds, that's engineering. When you speed up or slow down a song, you're counting beats -- using math. And technology makes electronic instruments and devices to record and play back music possible
Item Description:Includes index
Physical Description:1 volume illustrations
ISBN:9781680452297
1680452312
9781680452310