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This document provides instructions for an activity to compare the characteristics of sound produced by a sounding box and guitar. Students will use a sounding box with labeled rubber bands to pluck each band and observe any differences in pitch and loudness. They will note how stretching a band or placing a ruler across affects pitch. Next, students will strum each guitar string without holding frets and record observations to determine which string vibrates fastest/slowest and has the highest/lowest pitch and frequency. The goal is to understand how sound is produced and factors that affect pitch and loudness.

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Activity 1 Waves

This document provides instructions for an activity to compare the characteristics of sound produced by a sounding box and guitar. Students will use a sounding box with labeled rubber bands to pluck each band and observe any differences in pitch and loudness. They will note how stretching a band or placing a ruler across affects pitch. Next, students will strum each guitar string without holding frets and record observations to determine which string vibrates fastest/slowest and has the highest/lowest pitch and frequency. The goal is to understand how sound is produced and factors that affect pitch and loudness.

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Activity 1:

Objective In this activity, you will use your sounding box to


describe the characteristics of sound and compare them with
those of sound produced by a guitar.
Materials Needed
Sounding Box
Wooden Rod
Ruler
Guitar
Procedure Part 1: Sounding Box
1. Label the rubber bands of your sounding box as S1, S2 and
so on. Labelling should start with the thinnest rubber band.
2. Pluck each rubber band. Listen to the sounds produced.

Q1. What did you observe when you plucked each of the rubber bands and sound is
produced? __________How then is sound produced?__________

Q2. Is there a difference in the sound produced by each of the rubber bands?___________
How do they differ? __________

Q3. Which band produced a higher pitch sound? ________Which band produced a lower
pitch sound? ________
Q4. How can you make a softer sound? How can you make a louder sound? ____________
Q5. What factors affect the pitch and loudness of the sound
produced by the rubber bands? __________
3. Stretch one of the rubber bands and while doing so, pluck it
again.

Q6. Is there a change in the sound produced when you pluck the
rubber band while stretching it?____________ How does stretching the rubber band affect
the pitch of the sound produced? _______________

4. Place a ruler (on its edge) across the sounding box as shown in
the figure below. Pluck each rubber band and observe.

Q7. Is there a difference in the sound produced when the ruler is


placed across the box? __________

5. Move the ruler off center to the left or to a diagonal position so


that one side of each rubber band is shorter than the other side
(figure below). Pluck again each rubber band on each side of
the ruler and observe.

Q8. Which part of the rubber band (shorter side or longer side)
provides higher pitch? ___________Which part provides lower pitch?__________
Q9. Again, what factors affect the pitch of the sound produced
by the rubber bands? ____________

Activity 2: The Guitar


6. Strum each guitar string without holding the frets. (String #0 is
the lower most string while string #6 is the uppermost string.)
7. Record all you observations in the table provided.
Q10. Which string vibrates fastest when strummed?______
Q11. Which string vibrates slowest when strummed? _______
Q12. Which string has the highest frequency? ___________
Q13. Which string has the highest pitch? ____________
Q14. Which has the lowest frequency? ___________-
Q15. Which string has the lowest pitch? _____________
Q16. How would you relate pitch and frequency?____________-

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