How Does A Melodica Work? The Science Behind the Sound (鍵盤ハーモニカの仕組み 音の背後にある科学)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:13 What's inside a melodica
1:31 Understanding how reeds work
3:29 What determines reed pitch
4:06 The science of tuning reeds
4:44 Video of vibrating reeds
5:03 Introduction to why reeds vibrate
5:33 The Bernoulli effect
6:50 How the Bernoulli effect applies to melodica reeds
8:28 The science behind "reed gapping"
9:37 The sound made by the reed alone
9:58 How air sirens produce sound
11:11 How melodica reeds produce sound
11:45 Melodica acoustics
12:00 Goodbye, and a musical performance ("Japanese style" two-handed playing)
Many thanks to the following "Melodicaholics":
* Akeo "Pianonymous" Minamikawa taught me that there is no such thing as 'too much melodica.' She wrote a comprehensive book on the subject, which is highly recommended reading! I helped her develop content and graphics to explain the technical aspects, and found it very challenging to communicate these concepts with static images. That was the inspiration for this video.
* Daren Banarsë created, among other things, the indispensible "Melodica World" facebook and world-wide-web forums. I am reliant on this incredible global community of fellow musicians and enthusiasts. He's also very good at making melodica videos, and I'm grateful for his advice, ideas, and support.
* Oscar "Mister Melodica" Verdugo. His amazing project, the International Melodica Museum Inc., provided the melodica "group photo" background image in the opening and closing scenes.
Also:
Tony Freixas, just because he was curious about melodica physics, found some excellent research papers that formed the foundation for some key concepts presented here. Thanks Tony!
Jon Glancy helped me with many crucial aspects of audio and video, and gently tugged on my brain's leash when necessary.
Lisa Gimbel's guidance helped me make text readable and understandable to a wider audience.
Shashank Kumar and his incredible team at House Sparrow Films created animated sequences that blew my mind with their quality, clarity, and creativity.
All music composed and performed by Dr. Melodica, (except drums on the last song, which are played by Mason Rosenfeld).
David Brancazio (a.k.a. Doctor Melodica) is a mechanical engineer and a musician with a passion for both. - เพลง
Thank you tiny Melodica man
TH-cam randomly decided to recommend me this video pretty much as soon as soon as it was published.
I'm glad it did. It's a neat explainer, easy to follow and somewhat in-depth (though going more in-depth than that would've served little purpose).
Thank you!
Amazing video. Thank you Dr Melodica!
Thanks for all your help!!!!!!
You are very good at explaining scientific things in simple language! Love the animation. Great job!
Thank you very much!
OMG, I can't believe that this video is finally done 😳 Congrats David! 🥳
THANKS MAN!!!!
Great Video David, congratulations
Many thanks!
Dave! This is fantastic and I love it! Great animation and soundtrack!
Thanks Jim!!!!
This is fantastic! I've recently started learning accordion and have had no idea how it works. This explains it so beautifully. I love!
Thank you!
melodica pedagogy!!
Dave is the Melodica Doctor and Guru.
I am a doctor with no malpractice insurance!
Wow! This is such a well-produced video and detailed explanation. Amazing job, thanks for making this!
Thanks!!!
Thank you Doctor!
Great video, congrats on completing it! Very well produced.
Fascinating
Super cool!
This is amazing :) thank you 🙏
That turned out great! I liked the background music you made for it too.
Great video!
Love the animation and your little cut-out self floating around. Lots of production quality in there. Keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
That was an amazing video. Great job Dr. M!
❤❤❤ so much love in this video
That is genius! Thanks for the informative and detailed video.
This is beautiful, my friend, its bright as life! thank you, doc!
Spectacular, Dr. M! A thumbs up is just not enough! I appreciated learning all of the science behind these free-reeds...and great animation and music.....bravo!!
Thank you so much!!!
This is great! Thank you very much!
Glad you like it!
Wow - awesome video Dave. Really nice explanation of how the instrument works. Congrats!
Thanks Paul!!!
Extremely well done Dave. I was wondering how the ending would turn out , but Bernoulli saved the day. Thrilling, educational, and sort of goofy. I love you for all. Keep playing that thing.
I love this video. Ah, Melodica is such an elegant and scientific music instrument that I have. ❤❤❤ And i also learn how to modify my reeds. Many thanks. 🙏
Thanks everyone for showering so much of love to this project :)
With Love
House Sparrow Films
Thanks for the outstanding animations!!!!
Absolutely SUPERB video - I learnt so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Das ist toll!
Dave this is such a fun video, great job! The video is both educational and entertaining. Excellent overall production too!
Thanks!!!
Wow! What an amazing video!
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for the education 😏! 'Preciate ya!
My pleasure!
Je suis fasciné.
This is a great video! All information explained very clearly and in a very easy way to understand. The graphics are superb and make it much easier to visualise what happens. Thank you very much!
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
wowwwww????!! this video is so flipping good !!
i love the melodica and i always love learning about science and the acoustics of instruments. this communicates how it works really well. i learned more than i expected from this. physics class right now is about fluid dynamics and this vid made me understand the bernoulli effect a lil better. and it is also fun to watch, the visuals are really really really good. also love how theres melodica music in the background. amazing
Thanks so much!!! Glad to hear this is helping you understand fluid dynamics!!!
Nice! Veary nice. Great job. I actually started by playing harmonica, where the principal is related to reeds as well. Hopefully I broke enough of harmonicas, to take good care of my melodica now! 😅
That's a wonderful job. Thank you for investing your time in producing this video. It is extremely important for us, melodica lovers.
I also really liked the music. I loved it when during the questions the chord gained dissonant notes (a dominant chord). I also liked the use of the keyboard sound, which I usually adopt in my compositions as well.
I would like to contribute by making the subtitles in Portuguese, what do you think? We already communicated via email once, I think we can continue this conversation there. Congrats!!
Thank you!!! That would be amazing! Yes please. I can send you the .SRT file!
I love that you noticed how I used a dominant chord to keep viewers on their toes!
@@dr.melodicadavidbrancazio8860 yes, please. I will send you an email soon.
Great video, the physics behind it were really well done! It was a great idea to use a strobe light in place of a high speed camera for the video of the reed vibrating.
Thanks! I love strobe photography!
Thanks! I love strobe photography.
Is the air we blow enough to ring 2 melodicas at the same time?
yes, some players do that.
@@dr.melodicadavidbrancazio8860 are there low frequencies melodicas, or is there any way to make melodicas sound lower?
Amazing!
I have never seen such a clear explanation of melodica before.
Thanks for all your efforts.
And wonderful!
Thanks so much!