Marieke and her daughter Tilly make music with wine glasses and squash, and investigate how changing one variable can affect another.
Create a wine glass orchestra in your kitchen and explore how sound is caused by vibrations.
Marieke and Tilly experiment with making music and doing science experiments at home.
Using wine glasses filled with different volumes of liquids, they investigate how sounds are caused by vibrations and how changing the volume of liquid affects the pitch of the note.
Simply rubbing your fingers around the rim of a glass can make an amazing noise. Explore sound, music and science in this fun activity to do with kids.
With enough glasses and little bit of practice you might be able to play ‘Ode to Joy’ like Marieke!
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Can you make a singing Glass?
Marieke and he daughter Tilly make music with wine glases and squash. They investigate by only changing one variable and how it can effect another.
Using wine glasses filled with different volumes of liquids, they investigate how sounds are caused by vibrations and how changing the volume of liquid affects the pitch of the note.
Singing wine glasses
What you will need
1. Some wine glasses
2.Jug with squash not wine.
3. Spoon
You will need a full jug with squash after pouring some in to the wine glasses.
You can make music with glasses filled with squash.
A couple played an instrument called the glass harp with wine glasses.
It’s good to try as some glasses work better than the others.
You need to make your fingers wet.
Then apply pressure on the rim of the glass.
You must hold the base still.
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Some noises are different to others.
When materials vibrate it makes a noise.