Student Musical Instrument Projects // Homemade Science with Bruce Yeany

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7 жыл бұрын

Updated collection of musical instruments made by mIddle school physical science students as part of our study in sound, waves and energy. In this case, students are asked to make and present a musical instrument that can play 8 notes, it may be one octave but is not required. Students may choose between percussion, woodwinds, stringed instruments or any other method that will make a series of notes.

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@1ucasvb 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome assignment! Now I wanna build a PVC trombone!

@YeanyScience 7 жыл бұрын

The student said it was quite easy to build and with a little more practice was getting some better sounds out of it

@trtopics1665 4 жыл бұрын

I'm the kid playing the trombone

@ruuman 7 жыл бұрын

god i wish i had a class like that when i was a kid

@andrewdelrusso4951 7 жыл бұрын

Dude, ur the coolest teacher ever. Wish I coulda been in your class

@spaceshipable 6 жыл бұрын

The trombone was ace. The flutes were pretty impressive too!

@sciencetoymaker 7 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, creative, hard-working teacher; brilliant, creative, hard-working students!

@snatchngrab8262 7 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! I hadn't even watched yet... just an awesome idea. You're the number one teacher Bruce! Good job.

@capuchinosofia4771 2 жыл бұрын

Ah you made me remember a similar class i had at music school! It was a class where we would make and play our own instruments. I had a small "bombo" and a "sikku"! I had also made a "guitar" with elastic bands and a cardboard box like you show in the video... but that one broke really fast, the elastic bands warped the box and then broke! Still, we had so much fun! Its honestly something everyone has to make once in their life! That trombone and the flutes are super cool! And the wrench-a-bone is so creative haha Thanks for sharing the video!!!

@trosman7153 6 жыл бұрын

5:22 gotta love the Seven Nation Army

@tez8346 6 жыл бұрын

That's one of the coolest physical science school projects I've ever seen or heard of

@DKG1NDP 7 жыл бұрын

In a world full of youtube channels, Bruce, yours always keeps me coming for more. Great job.

@YeanyScience 7 жыл бұрын

thanks Drew!

@derricmacy 7 жыл бұрын

I wish I had your science class! You are an amazing teacher and you inspire many people/teens/children

@shohamgodel 7 жыл бұрын

Bruce you rock! I envy the children that have you as a teacher.

@KC-bg1th 2 жыл бұрын

Man, I miss high school. I screwed around all high school, and now that I’m almost 30 I just remember my friend’s dad telling me they’d be the most fun and laid back years of my life. I unfortunately never listened at the time, but I remember him telling me it in hindsight.

@sootikins 5 жыл бұрын

Great lesson! My favorite subjects (math / physics / music) all rolled into one project. These middle schoolers are the perfect age to teach IMO. Younger and they're too immature. Older and they're too distracted by boys / girls, cars, sports, partying, whatever. Speaking for myself, my "peak teachablity" was probably ninth grade....

@chrissscottt 7 жыл бұрын

Nice work kids and nice teaching Bruce.

@justayoutuber1906 Жыл бұрын

Flute girl and square guitar guy were really good. Props to trombone guy thinking outside the box!

@timwebster8105 4 ай бұрын

Believe it or not but that was me in 8th grade 😂

@Cadwaladr 7 жыл бұрын

What a great assignment. I was pleased to hear some of them playing Beethoven. That's probably the tune I would have chosen as well, that or the opening few bars from the Bach Cello Prelude no. 1.

@uelssom 7 жыл бұрын

Bruce is really trying (and succeding) to change the world

@katherineryanmusic 4 жыл бұрын

Love this idea!! Definitely stealing this - so fun! :D Thanks for sharing

@Tekninentyo 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome project! Thanks for sharing! 👏🎺Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮

@YeanyScience 7 жыл бұрын

nice to hear from Finland!

@MrKarpovy 5 жыл бұрын

Nice! My daughter has a similar homework assignment, thank you for the ideas!

@liamvervecken3231 7 жыл бұрын

That looks awesome! I hope we get that assignment one day

@JollyJoel 7 жыл бұрын

Some of these students built the instrument they were already playing in band class or was a hobby at home it seems.

6 жыл бұрын

Wow I just wish I had teachers like you at school...

@KnowArt 7 жыл бұрын

Man, if only all teachers were like you

@billmccaleb7481 7 жыл бұрын

great teacher and great students. keep up the great science1

@nurfacealways 5 жыл бұрын

What a way to encourage young adults to learn and test what they are taught

@MarkMcCluney 7 жыл бұрын

great sounds from the home made flutes - I've made a few and know how difficult that is.

@l3p3 7 жыл бұрын

I would have created an electrical piano using an microcontroller. But probably not what is required. I created some of those instruments seen in the video in the past thou. Once, I got a little wood sheet, ~40*~5*~0.6 cm. I put a rubber loop string around it and noticed the pitch changes with the tension of the string on that side. I got a pen and drew lines on every position a finger put on the string produced a note. I still do not know note names but I can hear notes pretty good. I played simple songs with that plank, never learnt playing any instrument or using a guitar before.

@simonstentoft5969 7 жыл бұрын

That is A very Nice guitar!:))

@anmol2886 2 жыл бұрын

Sir, I'm from India. I like your teaching style

@DrNaz 7 жыл бұрын

I love your vids prof!!!!

@Quantum-Bullet 7 жыл бұрын

Someone will get a KZfaq Playbutton soon!

@MadAussieMatt 7 жыл бұрын

You should get them to all play together as an orchestra.

@wilsonmarinmontoya4318 3 жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias.

@chadbonavente4469 7 жыл бұрын

I wish I have a teacher like you.

@iamgauravdaware 6 жыл бұрын

Ur amazing teacher..

@brianbailey2430 7 жыл бұрын

I'm curious what the instrument made of various lengths of downspouts sounded like. Maybe better than I imagine. Nice work Bruce, I enjoy all your videos.

@YeanyScience 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brian, the downspout sounds like you would expect, it was interesting and a good attempt, I encouraged the kids to try different materials but I would look for it in the orchestra any time soon.

@MusicDiscoveryLab 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I would've had a class like this.

@manmohanbisht69 Жыл бұрын

Sir u r amazing.

@christiangeiselmann 7 жыл бұрын

Fabulous!

@Ktulu789 7 жыл бұрын

What a bunch of great guitars! Excellent works in there!! I was amazed of the trombone! I never saw a scale played on that and didn't know that different notes could be played on the same lenght of the tube! Which, thinking of a trumpet and just three keys... is not hard to realize... but anyway. That was enlightening :D After that I learned that a bottle equals an organ pipe! Excellent! (Where did you borrow that?) Man, that was unexpected! xD Great work, kids!

@YeanyScience 7 жыл бұрын

HI Lucas, thanks, I was impressed with the efforts they put into them. The pipe organ piece is available online through supply companies. Currently I am working on several similar devices and will post it when I finish them, hopefully soon

@Ktulu789 7 жыл бұрын

Bruce Yeany hi, great videos you have! Thanks for replying! I'm not a professor, but it's great to be subscribed and every now and then I learn something amazing! Cheers from Argentina!

@andrewcarothers7438 6 жыл бұрын

You are the teacher I wish I could have

@trtopics1665 4 жыл бұрын

This was a really fun assignment

@girrrrrrr2 7 жыл бұрын

I was kinda hoping you would see a finger harp. I attempted to make one out of an old rake when i was in highschool... But the rake was really hard to cut, and i lost interest... Edit saw something similar at the end!

@girrrrrrr2 7 жыл бұрын

Also you should totally offer extra credit, if they can make an electric instrument.

@13onesProductions 5 жыл бұрын

What do you think about A440 and A432 Bruce?

@Yyote 5 жыл бұрын

5:01 my guy with the Wallace and gromit theme. Also why do half these kids look like they’re 10 and the other half look like they’re 16

@larslrs7234 7 жыл бұрын

1:22 is quite sophisticated.

@lizcabrera6323 4 жыл бұрын

hyea

@teexplicofisica 7 жыл бұрын

Genius thanks. Patagonia Argentina

@71nortcomm 7 жыл бұрын

wonderful project

@boomfiziks 4 жыл бұрын

Dear Mr. Yeany, at 5:04, above the blue poster board/wall, you have a brown thing with various wheels and possibly levers. Can you tell me what this is? Thank you for your time.

@YeanyScience 4 жыл бұрын

It is a device that I made for when we discuss mechanical advantage, it has a few gears, a lever, pulley on it. It actually has two small flags ( looks like the one is missing in this video). As I turn the big gear by hand, both flags wave back and forth but at different rates. Without showing the movement I have students figure out which flag waves back and forth faster. I thought I had posted a video on it but I guess not, would you like to either see pictures of it or perhaps a video?

@williamvondraclow5982 3 жыл бұрын

I wish i could build a guitar! And i wish that our class would be like that

@lotsagrapes 6 жыл бұрын

beautiful embrouchre bruce! :)

@lotsagrapes 6 жыл бұрын

ooh a whole tone scale lol

@realmathinaminute 4 ай бұрын

Fabulous!!!!!! Our Exhibition Night Project is going to be Music in Math. So.....this is SOSOSOSOSO helpful. We are in Algebra 1 class. Any other ideas that we might do????? Thank you!

@MisuqExcellence 7 жыл бұрын

Nice video ;)

@rasimeunsal1290 5 жыл бұрын

Çok başarılı hocam 👏

@gaganvkumar6579 3 жыл бұрын

Sir I have a dout What is the name of the 5th instrument which you showed

@mikkalasse 7 жыл бұрын

now i want a full pvc flute cover of seven nation army

@kute940 7 жыл бұрын

Verry good 😊

@eigna313 3 жыл бұрын

Do they find their own materials? Or do you provide a lot of the materials for them?

@YeanyScience 3 жыл бұрын

most of the materials is ones that they find but I have a collection of recycling materials that students can dip into for various projects

@justsomeasshole7388 5 жыл бұрын

Homie in the orange shirt straight chillin in the corner

@markdaniel8740 7 жыл бұрын

your students are fortunate. I doubt any sleep in class

@pranavkulkarni9061 5 жыл бұрын

Great

@agnesjoseph9775 2 жыл бұрын

Where can I learn more about this project? I'm creating something similar for students.

@YeanyScience 2 жыл бұрын

send me an email asking about it. Bgoknee@comcast.net

@brendanswords4659 7 жыл бұрын

i love this channel

@brendanswords4659 7 жыл бұрын

i wouldve made a uke, i wish this was on my curriculum

@MrRyanroberson1 7 жыл бұрын

its possible to make a guitar-like instrument with a y shaped string, where notes are determined by the angle of the third leg. just a note.

@YeanyScience 7 жыл бұрын

Hi Ryan, interesting idea, I'd like to see that

@MrRyanroberson1 7 жыл бұрын

ive come up with a few ideas on how it would work: first, imagine a regular guitar, but with the metal bits (where you put your fingers to change the note) ad the bottom, only 4 are needed (one for each effective finger) and then add a knob just above that one's thumb can press, to dampen/silence the upper half of the string. in the middle of the string is where the third arm ties in, and the operating arm (a piece of wood to which the other end of the lateral string ties) slides up and down along a roughly gourd-shaped body of the guitar. notes are played by strumming the lateral string, and tuned by the angle of contact and the four metal bits. I, however, am not in a position to make such fancy contraptions... so some yarn and a tube should do for now.

@YeanyScience 7 жыл бұрын

sounds like a challenge, if you ever get further on it I'd love to see it, or I'll throw it out to my students and see if anyone would like to give it a try. Thanks

@theassassin7495 7 жыл бұрын

Finally I found a gamer. 5:22 Battlefield 1

@anandhakrishnanpm714 7 жыл бұрын

Connor Kenway l thought that was FC Bayern's "Stern des suden"

@tez8346 6 жыл бұрын

It actually is Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes, that was used for the Battlefield 1 trailer

@benjoman8449 2 жыл бұрын

5:02 please someone helps what song is he playing

@alexhauptmann298 5 жыл бұрын

man, up the string tension and add a piezo to the guitar at 3:08, you've got a lap steel my dude

@MrChiefjc 7 жыл бұрын

7 Nation Army !!!

@emmywillow6599 7 жыл бұрын

i know a guy who knows a guy that works in making guitars. Itd be cool to make my intsrument with him

@Monkeyheadtpc 7 жыл бұрын

At 2:48 you said "this year", so I guess you assigned this task before. Were there other ideas "outside the box"? The trombone is very unique for example. I thought of a resonant electric circuit that might be another way to build an instrument. What grade are these students in? Really interesting assignment and as always great ideas! Thanks!

@YeanyScience 7 жыл бұрын

I never ceased to be amazed. I've seen a few electrical devices, bagpipes, harps, finger pianos. My favorite pieces was a device similar to a music box, as you rotated a cylinder it had dowels sticking out of it at various positions, they dowels would move small hammers that would drop on tuned pipes and as it turned it played a tune

@curvingfyre6810 4 жыл бұрын

my guy, HOW did you build a slide whistle entirely out of wood?? also its HUUUGE

@YeanyScience 4 жыл бұрын

if you check my listings there is a whole video devoted to slide whistles

@pinkponyofprey1965 6 жыл бұрын

I just remembered the teachers I had ... would I care more about school back then if I had real teachers like Bruce? Figure out the answer while I go weep in the corner ...

@Hunar1997 5 жыл бұрын

If i was one of your students will you count handflute 😁😁

@TheManjusu 2 жыл бұрын

Do you have a rubric for this. Did they make t hem in a group.

@YeanyScience 2 жыл бұрын

you can contact me at bgoknee@comcast.net, if I have one I will forward it to you. Each student made their own but they could work together

@TheManjusu 2 жыл бұрын

@@YeanyScience I emailed you.

@KakkakNet 6 жыл бұрын

This is good man. Have nice students

@root123 4 жыл бұрын

nice class

@transgendermickeymouse733 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome I play the clarinet and now I wanna make a flute out of pvc and the worst idea last minute project the the kid who just had buckets that was a last minute thing

@lbanting 7 жыл бұрын

Was kinda hoping one would play the Imperial March. Programmed it on a computer once as a programming assignment.

@ryanhenderson8102 7 жыл бұрын

And no one played any Lizst. Smh

@SoggySandwich80 3 жыл бұрын

7:28 did someone seriously make a slide organ pipe, holy shit

@nurfacealways 5 жыл бұрын

Shout out to white stripes cover

@gvi341984 7 жыл бұрын

Americans take a practical view on science instead of focusing on theory

@vincentbar484 7 жыл бұрын

gvi341984 We also focus on theory some, but the primary focus is still practicality

@jakewagner7416 6 жыл бұрын

Just wait until you get to college lol.

@feeno1188 6 жыл бұрын

Well yeah this is skiffle.

@ihopenoonefindsthisaccount7687 6 жыл бұрын

Who tf needs sheet music for ode to joy

@SoggySandwich80 3 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile I pull up with my harpsichord kit from earlymusicshop.com and claim I built it from scratch

@fabiancayalta4563 3 жыл бұрын

0:36 La zampoña :0000

@EthanPerales. 5 жыл бұрын

1:22 God dang it, I thought she was going to play Thomas the Tank Engine, I am disappointed.....Alexa, play Despacito

@vladimirlenin843 3 жыл бұрын

That's not a major scale song tho 😢

@jehadskaka5832 5 жыл бұрын

you make me sad😪😓

@acronymn8382 6 жыл бұрын

who noticed larry the cucumber?

@paulotav9066 5 жыл бұрын

good sugestions! (but a music classroom with a poor keyboard... cant see them learning much...)

@watchyojet1358 5 жыл бұрын

Mr ruhland

@niktimofey 7 жыл бұрын

Не удивлен что много ксилофонов (музыкальный треугольник был несправедливо забыт), ведь ударные просты по изготовлению и наглядны по логике "звук есть энергия". Потом совмещая демонстративную часть "звук - энергия и коллебание" - идут клавишные (вероятно, сложно изготовить, хотя на вид - не очень), аналог им щипковые (аж пара штук изображены),.. эх, такой бы урок для в музыкальную школу, у нас, то возможно я закончил больше нежели 2 класса из 7ми на фортепиано.

@niktimofey 7 жыл бұрын

Not surprised that xsilophone so many yet - is more easy and demonstative as "song is energy", later a going a keyboard (and analog of this - plucked type... wow their does a 2 things) "force and vibration". And if in my music scholl was that lessons - for demonstration of action. Maybe i finished more that 2 of 7 piano class. Thanks for shows it for us.