3D Instruments

Boomwhackers

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Boomwhackers

Catalog: 
3D30.20A
Location: 
Bd1
A collection of eight tubes cut to the length for musical notes (from shortest to longest) C,B,A,G,F,E,D, and C with each note a unique color. There are also caps for each tube to change the end of the tube from an antinode to a node. A musical book is included which is color coded for each note.

Guitar Sound and Data Studio

A tuning fork for "F" 330 Hz is used to compare with the first string of the gui

Guitar Sound and Data Studio

Catalog: 
3D20.21B
Location: 
A microphone reconds F from a tuning fork. This is then compared to the note F played on the first string of the guitar.

Singing rods

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Singing rods

Catalog: 
3D40.20A
Location: 
Between Cabs.19 & 20
Hold a long aluminum rod at various points and stroke with rosined fingers.

Beaker Breaker

The natural resonance frequency of the goblet can be easily detected by striking

Beaker Breaker

Catalog: 
3D40.55A
Location: 
A glass object (wine goblet, beaker, etc) is broken with sound.

Ruben's Tube

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Ruben's Tube

Catalog: 
3D30.50
Location: 
between 17 & 18
"NOTE--THIS DEMO IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE" A gas filled tube with holes along its top and a speaker at one end. Flames from the top indicate where the nodes and antinodes are of a standing wave.