Here's a copy of what I wrote in the document.
My Wind Instrument:
How it works:
When you blow into a wind instrument, your breaths create vibrations inside the instrument which collide with the molecules in the tubes to create sound waves. These sound waves change based on the shape of the instrument (the number of holes). This is why different holes produce different sounds. In order to play a certain note, the length of the input to the hole must be ¼ the wavelength of the note, because that is four times the fundamental frequency (lowest frequency of the flute). This instrument has another component called amplitude. Amplitude is the distance between the normal point to the loudest one. See, when you blow louder in your instrument, you start to make air particles vibrate. When air particles vibrate, they start to bump into each other which creates sound. The more force you give, the greater amplitude you get.
Note Analysis:
As we said before, the length from the input to the hole is ¼ the wavelength of the note. After figuring this out, I decided which notes I wanted to have on the wind instrument, and we all chose the C4-C5 scale. Below is the table that contains the wavelengths of the notes, and the lengths of the input to hole to the right of it.
When you blow into a wind instrument, your breaths create vibrations inside the instrument which collide with the molecules in the tubes to create sound waves. These sound waves change based on the shape of the instrument (the number of holes). This is why different holes produce different sounds. In order to play a certain note, the length of the input to the hole must be ¼ the wavelength of the note, because that is four times the fundamental frequency (lowest frequency of the flute). This instrument has another component called amplitude. Amplitude is the distance between the normal point to the loudest one. See, when you blow louder in your instrument, you start to make air particles vibrate. When air particles vibrate, they start to bump into each other which creates sound. The more force you give, the greater amplitude you get.
Note Analysis:
As we said before, the length from the input to the hole is ¼ the wavelength of the note. After figuring this out, I decided which notes I wanted to have on the wind instrument, and we all chose the C4-C5 scale. Below is the table that contains the wavelengths of the notes, and the lengths of the input to hole to the right of it.
This is a blueprint I made of the flute. I made it to figure out where each hole would go before making it.
Reflection:
For this project, I think we all did pretty good. Some of us in the group already had musical experience, so tuning and song making were a breeze for us. However, the science of sound waves and positioning of the instrument holes and strings were harder. I feel like I excelled with leadership and productivity in this project. I was managing tasks and made sure everything got done for my group. Along with this, I was working very fast and my instrument was the first to be completed. However, I feel that I should have been more conscious of my group in this project. For most days, I felt like I was doing a solo project and wasn't really focused on others this time. This isn't normally the case but I really started to notice it this time. Another thing I could have improved on was hard work. I felt like I could've added so much more to the descriptions and worked much more on the presentation this project and that my performance was and overall mediocre. I don't want to remembered as the one who does a mediocre job, but a great one.