Music+with+bottles

What it is?
Music is everywhere. It can be created even from things we do not expect. One of the unique ways of creating music is with the use of bottles. Music with bottles are made possible because of the difference in volume of both air and liquid in multiple bottles (It is highly recommended to have same kind of bottles). The lower the level of water or the greater the air volume, the higher the tone it produces. Music with bottles is can be played in two ways: by striking it with a spoon or a stick (works only for glass bottles) or by blowing on the top of the bottles (make sure to leave some space for air to pass while you blow).



How does it relate to sounds?
Making music with bottles relate to sounds because music is sound itself. In order to make music, you need to produce sound waves. Sound waves that are produced from musical bottles are caused by the vibration of both the water inside the bottle and the bottle itself.

Application
Blowing across the open mouth of a bottle causes the air inside the bottle to vibrate. The vibrating air produces sound. The pitch of the sound is determined by how fast the air vibrates. As the air inside the bottle decreases it vibrates faster and produces a higher pitched sound. You could write the relationship between the volume of air and the pitch of the sound like this: > air volume < pitch. This would be read as: An increase in the volume of air causes a decrease (lowering) in the pitch of the sound produced.

Tapping the bottle causes the bottle and its contents to vibrate at a frequency that is audible to the human ear**.** The pitch of the sound is determined by how fast the bottle and its contents vibrates. As the water inside the bottle decreases the vibrations are faster, which produces a higher pitched sound. You could write the relationship between the volume of water and the pitch of the sound like this: pitch. This would be read as: A decrease in the volume of water causes an increase (rising) in the pitch of the sound produced.

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Rowen Carlo Mallari