Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Making an idiophone out of simple materials

The idiophone that I created was a set of chimes. Using a clothes hanger, duct tape, shoe laces, cans, and keys, making the chimes was fairly easy. The shoelaces were tied to the keys and cans and then taped to the hanger. Initially, I tried just tying each end of the laces to the hanger, but that was unstable. Then I attempted to use tacs to stick the laces to the hanger, but the plastic hanger was too thick for the tacs to penetrate. I finally settled on the duct tape. A pattern alternating between keys and cans was done, and the items were arranged in a diagonal manner. These chimes are considered an idiophone because it is a percussion instrument without a membrane in which the vibrations through the solid instrument make the sound.

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