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Changing sounds

Changing sounds

1. Sounds are vibrations

  • Sounds are made when objects vibrate. The vibration makes the air around vibrate, and the air vibrations enter your ear which you hear as sound.
  • You cannot always see the vibrations, but if something is making a sound, some part of it is always vibrating.


Illustration of guitar string vibrating as it is being plucked and vibrations travelling to an ear.

 

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