Folded Tabor Pipe

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It appears you've written a detailed guide on creating and experimenting with printable musical pipes. Here's a breakdown of your text: **Designing and Printing the Pipes** You've experimented with different pipe designs, including assigning equivalent lengths to pipe bends. Your initial design had the D note 40 cents sharp, which was corrected by adjusting the finger holes' position. You've also printed an Alto G pipe and found that PLA with thin walls doesn't produce as good a tone as ABS with thicker walls. **Lesson Plan and Activity** The guide outlines a lesson plan for demonstrating basic resonance in a tuned pipe using printable whistles. Students can print their own whistles to experiment with, and the instructor can demonstrate on various pipes of different lengths and diameters. **Science and Music** The science aspect involves blowing air into the mouthpiece starting a resonant wave in the pipe. The instructor can demonstrate how closing finger holes makes the pipe longer and lowers the frequency. Students will experiment with their own whistles, noting how blowing harder can change the resonance from a quarter wavelength to a half wavelength. **Music** Holding all holes shut plays the base note of the pipe, while opening specific holes changes the pitch. The tune to "Lean On Me" is simple to play using this sequence. **Historical and Technology** Traditional Tabor pipes move the 3rd hole to the bottom of the pipe, which should be an easy change for an SCAD tinkerer to make. Students can examine and modify the SCAD code to design their own variations of the whistle. **Materials Needed** The guide lists the necessary materials: printed pipes in various sizes, a cell phone with a frequency measurement/tuner application, a calculator app, and ear plugs (if students are permitted free time with the pipes). Please let me know if you'd like me to clarify or expand on any part of this summary!