Singing Pipes - Hardware Store Music Heat a pipe and listen to the music.   email to friend
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If you take a trip to the hardware store, you would be surprised how many items you can find to make music and learn about the science of sound. The Home Depot employees always duck and cover when they see Steve Spangler coming through the doors because they never know what he will come up with next... Plastic tubes called BoomWhackers make music or sound with vibrations and are great tools for little scientists. But, Steve wasn't satisfied with plastic tubes... in fact, if plastic is good, steel pipes must be even better! Steve shows Kim Christiansen how to use the Singing Tube experiment to teach students about sound waves, as the piece of metal pipe is made to magically sing. Since this demonstration requires the use of fire (a propane torch), it must be done by an adult… with a child-like enthusiasm for making science fun.