How to Make Music With Bottles
You can actually play music similar to a xylophone using glass bottles, water and a stick or spoon. Compose your own songs or play some familiar tunes on your bottles.
Instructions
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Pick out some glass bottles that make a good tone when you strike them with a spoon. For example, you can use Starbucks bottles, glass juice bottles, Snapple bottles, tall drinking glasses or any other bottle made of glass. You need six of them.
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Fill one bottle almost to the top with water. Fill the next bottle with less water and the next with less. Keep going until you've filled up the last bottle, which you will add just an inch or so of water to.
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Tap each bottle with a stick or a spoon and notice the difference in sound and tone. You will notice that the less water in the bottle, the faster the bottle vibrates, therefore the higher the pitch will be.
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Play bottle music that you find on the Internet. You may need to alter the amounts of water in each bottle to obtain the right tone and pitch to make the music sound right. Write numbers on your bottles so you can follow the music.
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Tips & Warnings
When you blow into the bottles instead of tapping them the effect is the opposite-the bottles with the least water make the deepest tones and the bottles with the most water make the highest tones. This is due to the fact that you are making air vibrate when blowing into the bottles instead of making the glass vibrate.
