An Instrumental Case

Curious Cases

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Science

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

“We play many musical instruments in our family. Lots of them produce the same pitch of notes, but the instruments all sound different. Why is this?” asks Natasha Cook aged 11, and her Dad Jeremy from Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

For this instrumental case Hannah and Adam are joined by the Curious Cases band - Matt Chandler and Wayne Urquhart - to play with today's question.

Bringing the science we have acoustic engineer and saxophone player Trevor Cox. Plus materials expert Zoe Laughlin demonstrates a selection of her unusual musical creations, including a lead bugle.

Presenters: Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry Producer: Michelle Martin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.8	MUSIC
0:10.6	I'm Dr Adam Rutherford.
0:12.1	And I'm Dr Hannah Fry.
0:13.6	And you are going to send us your everyday mysteries.
0:16.4	And we are going to investigate them using the power of...
0:19.6	Science!
0:20.4	Science!
0:21.2	Science!
0:22.0	I like it.
0:23.1	MUSIC
0:26.0	We've got a rather special episode of Cureus K.C.
0:29.5	It's a lot of excitement going on in the Cureus K.C. studio.
0:32.6	Yeah, in fact, we're in a different studio.
0:34.0	We're in the studio where they have lots of musical instruments.
0:36.8	Certainly are.
0:37.4	This is where they do classical music, isn't it?
0:39.7	Indeed.
0:40.7	You know, we've got a piano in the corner.
0:42.8	We've got a kazoo in the corner.
0:45.7	We've got this weird instrument, which we think is called a melodica,
0:48.5	which is a bit like a tiny rubbish piano that you blow through,
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