Watering can as trumpet © Siemens Stiftung 2018 CC BY-SA 4.0 international

Watering can as trumpet

Video

Video (00:03 minutes):
Child blows into a watering can. This produces relatively loud trumpet-like sounds.

Available in: English, German
Type of media: Video (618.0 kByte)
Last update: 2018-08-07
License:

This medium is made available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 international license.

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Description:
The current of air that is pressed out between the lips produces the original vibration. In addition, all the air in the watering can is stimulated and it vibrates as well. The sound gets louder. With certain pitches the air in the can vibrates more or less. In our example, the low pitch sounds vibrate, therefore the wateringcan trumpet sounds relatively muffled.

Information and ideas:
Easy experiment to do. Parallels can then be drawn with musical instruments that work on this very principle.

Relevant for teaching:
Sound/acoustics: parameters
Vibrations and waves
Acoustic phenomena
Related media:
There are no other media directly related to this file.
Learning resource type:
Illustration
Subjects:
Personal, social and health education (PSHE); Physics
Grade levels:
Grade 1 to 4; Grade 5 to 6; Grade 7 to 9; Grade 10 to 13
School types:
Elementary school; Middle/high school
Keywords:
Sound; Resonance (physical process); Sound (basic phenomenon); Sound production
Bibliography:
Siemens Stiftung Media Portal
Author:
MediaHouse GmbH
Rights holder:
© Siemens Stiftung 2018
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