On this week’s episode of “For Science!” we explore vibrations and sound waves by creating a mason jar xylophone. Sound waves are created by vibrations which are back-and-forth movements repeated over ...

The stones at Stonehenge could have been ‘played’ like a giant xylophone, a study has claimed. Researchers spent months tapping pieces of stone onto 1,000 types of rock and recording the sound they ...

POWELL — At Northwest College, a roughly 100-year-old musical instrument sits in Assistant Professor of Music Zach Paris’ office. He called the Deagan 200 Series Artist’s Special the Stradivarius of ...

The same research and technological innovations that a team from MIT, Harvard, and Columbia University used to create a pitch-perfect xylophone with bars shaped like animals could one day help make ...

vibrate more slowly and make lower-pitched sounds. Shorter objects vibrate faster and make higher-pitched sounds. When Xena strikes the bottles with a metal spoon, she causes the bottles and the water ...