The hardest part in this summative is trying to make the instrument. We need to come up with a lot of ideas and try our if it works. Some instrument can not make sound that is loud enough, or cannot play a song or five notes. Also, writing the lab report is also hard, because you need to choose the best graph and data table to well represent your datas, if you didn’t, no matter how good your data is, it didn’t help. The easy part of this summative is collecting datas. You just simply play and record the frequency.
A part of this summative is to give feedbacks to other people’s lab report. I think this is very helpful. One, it can help the author of the lab report improve base on what you observe that can get better; two, it can also let you improve. You can read and get the parts that the author did well on and make it to your own stuff and learn from it.
I pass in the five test, I can play a song and five notes and they are all loud enough for the whole class to hear it. The song I played is Mary had a Little Lamp, and it can be recognized. The five note are also clear so the whole class can know what they are and hear it. But some of the note are not really accurate, like the note G, it is a little bit too low. For improvement, I can draw a mark on the part that will play G so very time it will be the same.
The instrument I made is a string instrument, kind of like a guitar with one string. I am inspired by the musical Instrument videos put on classroom. There is a video about wooden diddley bow, and I think it might be easy to make this instrument and using different materials. After I started to create it, I found out that it don’t really work with some materials. The process of making the instrument is hard, but it is really fun when you make your own instrument and play with it.