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Curated Video
The Importance and Applications of Zinc
In this video, we explore the various purposes and significance of zinc, a metallic element with atomic number 30 and chemical symbol Zn. We highlight the use of zinc in alloys, particularly brass, which is known for its strength and...
Curated Video
The Many Uses of Copper: From Bronze Age to Modern Applications
This video provides a brief overview of copper, highlighting its unique properties and various uses in different industries. It explores how copper is used in electrical connections, plumbing, industrial machinery, architecture, and the...
Mazz Media
Natural Frequency and Resonance
This video engages students by asking questions and showing phenomena that relate to simple harmonic motion. The program provides examples and demonstrations using “singing” glasses, violin and piano sounding boards, oscillations in...
English Tree TV
Musical Instruments Song
A fun Musical Instruments song for kids to learn about music! Great for music teachers, this song helps kids learn the names of the instruments and what they look like. Come sing along and learn about the joys of music!
Super Geek Heroes
Musical Instruments with Ronnie Rock
Fun 3D animated learning episodes to support the early years development areas of Expressive Arts & Design. Ronnie Rock is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn! Ronnie sings about his favourite musical instruments by playing them one...
Fun Kids
Learn About Musical Instruments
Let's learn about musical instrument names! In this video you'll learn: guitar, violin, trumpet, drums, piano, tambourine, maracas, triangle, congas and accordion. Can you play a musical instrument? What's your favorite musical instrument?
The Africa Channel
Acoustic Ancestry
ACOUSTIC ANCESTRY is a music series of 3-5 minute pieces in which the sounds of little known, surprising, or perhaps lost indigenous African musical instruments are highlighted, along with the stories of their contributions to music....
Yale University
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments: Flanders Recorder Quartet
Listen to the Flanders' Recorder Quartet perform a selection by Merula in this Yale University performance series piece.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Animations: How Do String Length, Tension, and Gauge Affect Pitch?
Narrated animation that visually explains how a string's pitch is affected by its length, tension, and gauge. (30 secs) Uses Quicktime.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Heavy Metal: The Physics of Diy Instruments
Paul Rudolph finds objects in garbage and junkyards, and transforms them into musical instruments, even using them in his own performances with his band. Listen as he talks about this work, and as a scientist discusses the physics of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What's the Story Behind the World's Oldest Piano?
In this video [2:14] join Sasha, age 10, as she reports from the Musical Instruments galleries to get the inside scoop on an instrument that changed music history.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Slit Gong (Atingting Kon)
In this video [2:22] Met curator Eric Kjellgren on communication in Slit Gong [Atingting kon] by the Tin Mweleun peoples of Ambrym Island in Vanuatu, mid to late 1960s. The towering slit gongs of northern Vanuatu are among the largest...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Notes From a Former 'Guitar Zero'
Why it's not too late to learn how to play a musical instrument. NYU psychology professor Gary Marcus shares his experiences and insights about the science of learning, which he's gathered in a new book Guitar Zero.