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Deborah Jeter
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Three more things Thomas has since learned about pipes:

He says, "If you blow in one end without putting your hand over the other end, you get a pitch an octave higher.

One some pipes, you get the octave-higher pitch by drawing a bow across one edge.

You can also get the octave-higher pitch by dropping the pipe on a hard floor--only you can't control how many times the pipe bounces.

Thomas is the founding member of the Fun Music Ideas newsletter, which has monthly tricks and tips for the music educator. He also has a web site, called, The Pentatonic Music Collection. Drop by and see what else he has to offer.

Here's a sneak preview of something that will be in the upcoming Newsletter that Thomas started. This addition is from, Fifth grade teacher Melissa Hammonds who has a student who entered the classroom with a home-made rainstick.

"She used an empty gift wrap roll made of cardboard. The roll was filled with rice and taped closed on each end. She poked straight pins all up and down the roll and decorated it. It sounded almost just like a cactus rainstick!"

"Several straight pins are stuck into the cardboard randomly from top to bottom so that when the cylinder is turned upside down, the rice falls through bouncing off the straight pins and creating a cactus rainstick sound."

This is a great little site that has a gallery of homemade instruments images. It's called the Virtual Museum of Music Inventions. The web authoress has a place where you can submit your own ideas, offers a short lesson on how sound is made, and she has started a links page to other instrument sites. She would like for other schools to send her their musical instrument pictures. She can be reached at herexfor@op97.k12.il.us

Other Links of Interest

Homemade Instruments These suggestions are from the Douglass Math and Science Academy.

Making and playing homemade instruments Schoolroom.com offers videos on how to make instruments.

Instruments This site has examples of Popipes, a Glass Marimba, Quarter-tone Glass Marimba, a Wooden Xylophone, Log Drums and PVC Talking Drum. It even has some sample sound files.

Mel Bay Publications Profile of Mark Nelson more materials and resources that can be ordered for your music classes.

A Recipe for making a Xylophone submitted by James Alberty.

Another recipe for making a xylophone submitted to the Music Ed list of ArtsEdge.

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11.   July 5, 1999 2:54 PM
Up above, there is a referral made to four links at jumpoint.com. That server hasn't been active since the summer of 98.
The new address is as follows:

http://members.tripod.com/~Trip/newsarchive6 ...


-- posted by Deborah_Jeter


10.   April 25, 1998 5:11 PM
Sandy! This is terrific! Wow! an article within an article. You have out done yourself. Thanks so much for contributing. I'm so glad these ideas are archived here for future use by the Suite 101 Music ...

-- posted by Deborah_Jeter


9.   April 25, 1998 9:28 AM
Sandy Toms
Instruments To Make:

These notes come from several sources. Some sources were deleted accidentally.
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Handmade Instruments (web site)
http://www.menc ...


-- posted by SandyT_2


8.   March 29, 1998 8:58 AM
Never have done anything like that Chrys, but it sounds like a wonderful lesson. It covers many areas of comprehensive skills and it would be a fun way to reinforce and internalize their experience. I ...

-- posted by Deborah_Jeter


7.   March 28, 1998 7:54 AM
Chrys Alam

Hi All! I'm new here. Looking for something to grab my 4th graders for a long term project for the end of the year. Was thinking about a slide show presentation, kids working in sm. g ...


-- posted by ChrysA





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