It was always going to be interesting.. |
..wrestling with clay, but once we got the hang of it.. |
..fantastic instruments .. |
..could be made. |
Ollie is a drum fanatic and made a tjembe drum.. |
..whereas Ellie decided to make some bells. |
Henry very puts the finishing details on his drum and.. |
..Ethan made an instrument which will take strings after it is fired. |
James made an ocarina which should make noise when it is blown. |
All the class had their photo taken for the local paper with their damp instruments.The instruments go from a dull grey.. |
which don't make any noise, to pale yellow and very hard and which make lovely sounds. |
This was the choice of glaze colours. |
Callums instrument was half drum and half shaker.. |
..whereas Harry's had strings to pluck. |
Rose's shaker had shards of clay inside it. |
Sebastian tried and tried to make sounds.. |
..as did Elaa - easier said than done. |
Oliie plucked the skin on his drum and blew through it make a second sound. |
We used sliced up ballons to make the top of our drums.. |
..and elastic bands for the strings. |
Plucking the ballon made a very interesting sound.. |
..and shaking the shaker was great once we got rid of the ash inside. |
James found his ocarina made a better sound than blowing it. |
Makng your own drumsticks also helped with changing the tone.. |
..as did different sized elastic bands. |
Here is another tricky ocarina which Rose could play because she is a flute playing. |
Arthurs ballon kept on pinging off. |
It si not a coincidence that the bells are .. |
..the last of the instruments to be photographed. |
They required lots of fiddly glazing and then.. |
..stringing up so the bells could ring out. |
Not surprisingly the larger the bell,.. |
..the deeper the sound and the smaller the bell,.. |
..the higher the sound. |
Don't you think they all look great.. |
..they make great wind chimes too. |
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