Science Oxford Code Club is doing musical instruments on 22 October, but the current thinking is all about hitting, because that's quite easy with servos. How about a wind instrument?
- Source of wind - either operator or some sort of fan/funnel/concentrator/tube
- Win instruments have
- a buzzer thing, like a reed instrument
- a whistle, like a recorder
- a flute-like transverse blowing arrangement
- Needs variable pitch preferably
- Change pipe length - slider like a trombone?
- Change pipe length - stop off holes, like most instruments
- Change pipe - like an organ, pan pipes etc.
I'm quite liking the idea of bottle-based pan pipes - easy to set up pitches, can be arranged in a radial pattern, servo can move pipe around the circumferential bottles from the centre. Servo position determines bottle in use.
And then what about plucked instruments?? Servo could surely twang a string with a plectrum of some sort. Could also operate in both directions, up and down. Pitch variability hard, unless micro:bit can also operate some kind of pressing arrangement on frets, or, maybe a slide by rotating a roller with strings that move the slide up and down the string.
Lots to work on here!
