Build a Band

How it works:

The pan flute works when you blow air down each pipe one at a time, this creates vibration which creates the sound you can hear. With no mouth piece for this wind instrument you have to direct your air at an angle to have the tune come out clean. The sound can differ by blowing your air into the eight different sized pipes, because it changes the wavelength through the instrument due to the size. At first our pan flute was going to be made out of pvc pipes but instead we used metal pipes. Once all was cut we hot glued pennies to the bottom so the air would not get out then taped the bottom to hug onto the sides to give it extra reassurance.To attach each pipe together we hot glued them together and wrapped tape around multiple time to it will be holdable and not wiggle around. Our pan flute can play the “B” major scale. This goes B, C, D, E, F, G, and A are all part of the B major scale. To build our pan flute’s first note we cut the length then we used the multiplier(¼) for the whole scale, meaning that the wavelength is getting cut by ¼ for each new note.