We wrapped up our music/sound portion of our unit with a visit from a piano tuner. We descended upon our friend's mom's piano like a flock of seagulls :) and the tuner pulled the whole darn thing apart to show us what was really going on inside the instrument when played.
Like, literally, pulled the whole thing apart. (!) There are pieces and parts I never knew existed!
Trivia time...can you guess what type of instrument the piano is?? (I always thought it was a stringed instrument because, well, the strings...but it turns out it's actually a percussion instrument because of the mallets hitting the strings to make the vibrations!)
Making PVC pan pipes! Click HERE for the "recipe" and some songs to play.
The older kids gave oral reports on an assigned composer. It's always shocking to hear the true stories behind such genius. Brenin had Johann Sebastian Bach. I was a little worried she'd just be too shy to get up in front of a group to speak. I guess she muddled through. ;-) (doesn't she look TERRIFIED?!?)
This is actually one of the aspects of the group that I most appreciate, the opportunity for the kids to speak, perform, learn and even instruct publicly. While this might not come as a challenge for Brenin naturally, it may become one if it's not practiced and preserved, and it's a gift and a skill she'll most definitely be needing later in life.
We're well into frontiersmen, tracking and trapping now....never a dull moment! :)
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