Build a Band
For this project my team and I built three different instruments. We started by coming up with ideas for our instruments and then we started blueprinting. The instruments that we wanted to build were a guitar, a flute, and rain sticks. The three instruments we built are a guitar, a flute, and six different rain sticks.
Throughout this project most things worked very well. We found a great way to split up to build all of our instruments. I worked mostly on the rain sticks, but I did help build both the flute and the guitar. Something that did not work out so well was that we had trouble building the guitar. We started building one, but we ended up having to rebuild it because we used the wrong type of wood. When we rebuilt it we used thinner plywood. Another thing that we had trouble with was getting the holes in thie correct place on the flute. We ended up building four flutes with the holes places in different places. In the end we got the holes in the right place and were able to play the notes nicely. Throughout this project I learned how to build rain sticks using a mailing tube and nails. I also learned how to tune a guitars.