Instrumental Sounds
I always loved to learn how to play certain instruments. My favourite from the starting was the keyboard and as I grew older, I started liking violin as well. It has this smooth, regular, pleasant and definite pitch that makes me want to listen to it every time I’m calm and alone. We all know that sound coming from musical instruments are very intricate but creative and beautiful. Different instruments unleash different levels of vocal repetition when sounding and hence produce different tones.
I have taken some music courses in the past, while in grade 9 and 10 which helped me a lot with my investigations. Music is sound, so it helps us understand how sounds are different in terms of pitch. Sound can be called both music and noise, but the difference between them is that musical sounds are organized into patterns that have pitch, flow and rhythm. On the other hand, noise is just arbitrary, muddled sounds. Whether it is music or noise, sounds are prepared and travel in the same way. A tone is a musical sound, and is made by vibration of air and it is called waves. Till now I didn’t know that in order for the musicians to control the loudness, how well it plays, and the quality of the tone, the sound waves must be applied in a creative way. The reed, string, or other appliances of some instruments help create sound waves when it is moved. An example would be, the violin, which is a very small instrument that makes a very high sound and the cello is bigger, so it has a low sound. Therefore, investigating instrumental sounds has helped me gain a lot of knowledge about sound.
