New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text!
Here is an original and exciting look at the fascinating world of sound and
music. Superb real-life photographs of instruments ranging from zithers and
panpipes to electric guitars and synthesizers offer a unique "eyewitness"
view of ancient and contemporary music. See how strings vibrate to make
a note sound, how an invisible "column" of air sounds a pipe, which instrument
resembles a peacock, how sousaphone players wear their instruments.
Learn who invented an important new key system, how to master the bagpipes,
why pipe organs have "ears" and "mouths", and why French horns are "doubled
up". Discover how a vegetable gourd charms snakes, why tangled fingers led to
the invention of the piano, why spiders add a "buzz" to xylophones, where
reindeer toe-bones were used as whistles, and much, much more!

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