Making Music All musical instruments create sound by causing matter to vibrate. The vibrations start sound waves moving through the air. Most musical instruments have a way of changing the frequency of the sound waves they produce. This changes the pitch of the sounds, or how high or low the sounds seem to a listener.

Applying too much tension to a string tightly can raise it to the pitch of the next note, while loosening it can easily lower it the same amount. Increasing the tension raises the pitch. The length of a string is also important. When a string is supported at two points and plucked, it vibrates and produces sound.

The pitch of a stringed instrument is increased by increasing tension in string.

When the length of a string is changed, it will vibrate with a different frequency. Shorter strings have higher frequency and therefore higher pitch. When a musician presses his finger on a string, he shortens its length. The more fingers he adds to the string, the shorter he makes it, and the higher the pitch will be.

When string players tighten or loosen their strings, they are altering the pitches to make them in tune. The density of a string will also affect its frequency. Remember that dense molecules vibrate at slower speeds. The more dense the string is, the slower it will vibrate, and the lower its frequency will be.

8 Oldest Musical Instruments in the World

• Tutankhamun’s Trumpets. Age: about 3,340 years old.
• Jiahu Flutes. Age: 7,000 – 9,000 years old.
• Lithophones. Age: between 4,000 and 10,000 years old.
• Bullroarer. Age: about 20,000 years old.
• Isturitz Flutes. Age: 20,000 – 35,000 years old.
• Hohle Fels Flute. Age: 35,000 – 40,000 years old.
• Divje Babe Flute.
• Geisenklösterle Flutes.

Jiahu bone flute

The 10 most disgusting orchestral instruments, ranked in order of grimness

• Harp. So, ‘harpist’s finger’ is an actual cutaneous condition specific to harpists, whose hands are the uniformly gnarled and calloused results of a world without hygiene.
• Trumpet.
• Flute.
• Violin.
• Piano.
• Voice.
• Cello.
• Oboe.

Here are the biggest, strangest, most bizarre musical instruments in the world – expect unlikely hybrids, oversized brass and an electronic badger.

• The Great Stalacpipe Organ.
• Sea Organ.
• Cello Horn.
• Cross-Grainger Kangaroo-Pouch Tone-Tool.
• Singing Ringing Tree.
• Cheese Drums.
• Fluba.
• Theremin.

It’s a “Stalacpipe Organ,” and there’s one in Luray Caverns, Virginia that spans three-and-a-half acres — it’s the largest musical instrument in the world

The 10 Best Musical Instruments for Beginners

• Keyboard/Piano. The piano is a great musical instrument for beginners.
• Guitar. The guitar is a great choice of instrument for beginners and with good reason.
• Violin. The violin is another popular choice of instrument for beginners (as are a few of the other orchestral strings).
• Cello.
• Double Bass.
• Saxophone.
• Flute.
• Clarinet.