Download or read book Musical Inventions written by Kathy Ceceri and published by Maker Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating new instruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you have to change the sound waves coming out of the instrument. That's science! When you explore the way different materials produce different sounds, that's engineering. When you speed up or slow down a song, you're counting beats -- using math. And technology makes electronic instruments and devices to record and play back music possible.