In this project we looked at sound waves to create three musical instruments. One instrument had strings, one was percussion, and the other was a wind instrument. These instruments all use transverse waves created by vibrations in the air. Above is a link to a document detailing how each instrument works. One of the most difficult parts of this project for me was getting my piping to fit together properly. Because I wanted to try making a saxophone using my saxophone mouthpiece, I found that the pvc pipe was always too big to fit inside the mouthpiece. This frustrated me for quite some time, but eventually I realized that I could get a larger pipe for the neck joint and have it go around the mouthpiece. Another struggle with this project was figuring out the notes with our ukulele. The reason this was so difficult was that the ukulele that we built had two different kinds of string that wouldn't tighten to the same notes as a normal ukulele. This made it much more difficult to find individual notes, but slowly we began to do so using a tuner and trial and error. This project was really interesting, especially from the perspective of a musician, because I got to learn more about how instruments work. Not only did this help me understand the physics, but it also helped me in band because I better understood how my instrument was working, and why things went where they did. Another cool thing with this project was being able to learn about the differences between types of instruments. As a wind player, I didn't really realize that percussion used such different ways to create sound waves. In fact, I didn't even fully understand how my instruments made sound waves. Our group was very supportive of one another and we all tried our best to support each other's ideas, but often we were split into two groups because we were two pairs of good friends. However, as the project progressed, we branched out more and all began to work as a much more cohesive team.