How To Make Your Own Jaltarang

While we are all aware of these individual sounds, did you know that when they are combined, they can produce music?

What do the sounds of a blowing whistle, a baby's cry, and a woman's scream have in common?

They're all high-pitched noises.

Low pitched sounds include the sound of a bass drum, a car engine, and frogs croaking. B

egin your family band by making some fantastic homemade musical instruments.

Let's take an experiment that will teach us how sound waves travel, how different pitches are produced, and how to have a great time while doing it.

Jal Tarang, also known as the "jalatharangam," is a melodic percussion instrument from India.

It consists of a set of ceramic or metal bowls filled with water that are struck with wooden beaters or Japanese bamboo sticks, one in each hand.

Water is poured into these cups, and the pitch is adjusted by varying the amount of water in the cup.

The number of cups used is determined by the melody being played. To make the sound, the player lightly taps the cups on the border with a wooden stick.

Required things:

• Water

• 5 Similar size glass containers

• Colors of food (optional)

• Wooden batons (which could be wooden kitchen spatula)

Procedure:

• Put the glasses on the table and arrange them in a single row

• Fill the glasses with varying amounts of water. 

For example, you could begin by filling the first glass to the top (say 1 cup of water).

• Fill the next glass with 34 cups of water, then the next with 12 cups of water, and the last with 14 cups of water, leaving the last glass. Fill the next glass with

34 cups of water, then the next with 12 cups of water, and the last with 14 cups of water, leaving the last glass empty. 

• The rule is to gradually reduce the amount of water in each glass until the last glass is empty.

• If you used food colours in your experiment, now is the time to add them to each glass as desired. And you're done with the preparations for this experiment.

• Now, gently tap the wooden stick/spoon against these containers; you should try tapping them at various points on the glass (top or middle) to hear how each one sounds.

Result:

The glass with the least amount of water will produce a high-pitched sound, while the glass with the most water will make a low-pitched sound, and the glasses in between will make noises of pitches somewhere in between.

You will enjoy an extraordinary experience by experimenting with these glasses and making your songs.

The intensity of the vibrations determines the sound pitch.

The higher the pitch, the faster the vibrations, also known as frequency.

When something hard hits the glass jar, in that case, the glass vibrates, along with the water inside it.