40 minutes presentation
$5.00 per student
Suitable for Science classes and Music classes.
Year 7 to Year 12
For example:
- Various instruments are used to demonstrate the three things that all musical instruments must have:
- something that vibrates,
- some way of controlling those vibrations,
- some way of making the sound produced louder.
- Early gramophone records are used to demonstrate the relationship between vibrations and sound.
- The Stroh Viol is used to illustrate how horns make sounds louder.
- Various rare musical instruments (Nose Flute, Jews Harp, Musical Saw) are used to illustrate how larger things vibrate with lower frequencies than smaller things.
- Chladni Plates are used to demonstrate some spectacular standing waves.
- testing hearing for range of frequencies
- wave pattern of various instruments
- measuring loudness of a fog horn
- care of ears, and
- demonstrations of historical hearing aids.