The physics of music: playing fire, ice and jelly trumpets - with Anna Ploszajski

Discover the physics of music, as Anna demonstrates how you cancreate a functioning trumpet from weird and wonderful materials.
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Dr Anna Ploszajski is an award-winning materials scientist, author, presenter, comedian and storyteller based in London. She’s a materials generalist, equally fascinated by metals, plastics, ceramics, glasses and substances from the natural world. Her work centres around engaging traditionally underserved audiences with materials science and engineering through storytelling. Having developed her own unique blend of autobiographical scientific storytelling in her first book, Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning Through Making, she now trains professional researchers and teachers to communicate what they do better, through the study of story. In her spare time, Anna plays the trumpet in a funk and soul covers band and is an ultra-endurance open water swimmer. Oh, and it’s pronounced “Por-shy-ski”.
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[@subliminalvibes]

As a fan of music, science, and jelly, I found this fascinating!

[@EmilyAllan]

Loved this. As a fellow musician and materials lover, this hit the spot. Thank you.

[@chopsddy3]

Wow! A fiery oscilloscope ! That is super cool.

[@guyh3403]

Thank you so much. Amazing to see those sound waves portrayed like this.

[@amdredlambda]

Who doesn't love this! That's all the fun a scientist will love to have. Love it!

[@markseagraves5486]

Fantastic. Anna radiates joy and fascination. And who wouldn’t want to run around the Royal Institution in a jumpsuit making all manner of clever noises?

[@leswest9287]

Amazing demonstration. I played a trumpet in my youth but it wasn’t a jelly one 😂

[@getspitfired]

Analog Synthwaves. Great Idea!!!

[@resh..]

Very, very cool... And wobbly. And burny. And hard. This was awesome!

[@TheRealPaulMarshall]

The different materials may make the same note but they don't really make the same tone, do they?

[@marwan75]

Dr. Anna, highly honored to see someone like you in youtube. Thanks for sharing this material.

[@FHM1994]

Amazing, a way to combine material physics and trumpet music, that's right up my alley. Thanks Anna!

[@mho...]

*Fascinating* 🖖 Fluid Dynamics & Waves are always intriguing!

[@brave_new_india_science]

no words to explain ,only grateful for your work !!

[@kentherapy7022]

Flame graphic eqalizer.......👀....Incredible

[@dianneledford3681]

Absolutely Fascinating hope to see so many many more in the future on the channel 😀

[@slavamoshkin]

Awesome! Delightful! So lovely, so trumpety! 🎺

[@jemimabrennen2580]

Loved this! So well shot and edited.

[@alancurtis9155]

Fascinating, thank you.

[@user-jg3ko8pf2r]

awesome and beautiful, love it to the max

[@vidyalankargharpure]

Loved to listen and 'view' musical notes created by trumpet! Wo! Science is musical too! Loved the video.

[@hireality]

What a wonderful video ✨👍

[@joshuasamuel2122]

She has a great tone!

[@RGCbaseace]

If you haven't already look into nigel Stanford (cymatics) it's very good explaining this very thing

[@aurora.3697]

Fascinating

[@glacieractivity]

As someone with my screenname would say - Newtonian physics is still onto something even after fluid and relativity and thermo dynamics came along. We have flames to prove it. It also reminds me why I dropped the trumpet I was designated to play at the age of 8 (back in the 1970s) and opted for a chirche organ instead. Same principle, way more cool of you want to play Bach.

[@williamlewis8773]

This video would be great for inspiring young children when they first reach either the age of fire nor when they begin to study the arithmetic of whole numbers and of rational numbers and again when they study music and the Cartesian graphs of trigonometric functions and then again when they study Fourier analysis in college , if they care to do so . ... also a great science fair project if you know a plumber , a gasfitter , nor a chemistry nor physics teacher who can and will help with the apparatus .

[@hudsonfluxforever]

Splendid splendid I think she is my long lost brass horn drram I had as a young bugle blower on the gardens of Eden ❤

[@domdoesthethings]

I loved material science at uni but to this day I cannot get my head around Miller Indices and planes of crystals 😢

[@dimension2788]

❤I play a King Trumpet. I have a Legend and Tempo 600. My favorites horns! The flames parse out to regular spaces at higher notes. So these must represent standing waves yes? The note makes nodes? Love your King (Silver Flare)???

[@ocdmusic]

lol I played trumpet for a couple of years as a kid a long time ago, started making music a couple of years ago, all electronic but I wanted to try get a few instruments to learn to play, would love a theremin one day. I want to get a flute though, played that even less than the trumpet but Id like to incorporate that. I love experimental music stuff, this is kinda similarish ish to Simon the Magpies experimentation although thats electronic mostly too.

[@richardrhee57]

Genius

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

The flexible pipe and funnel resembles an instrument used in the late '3os by the band Bob Skyles and his Skyrockets. It used a flexible metal gas pipe like those used to connect space heaters to the gas mains and a metal kitchen funnel. They called it a "bazooka." The anti-tank rocket launcher used in WWII was nick-named bazooka after the Bob Skyles instrument. You can hear it being used here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnSXiGB7eKiIe8U

[@edgeeffect]

When talking about metallurgy and history, lets not forget the chalcolithic period... copper is good stuff all on it's own.

[@billwesley]

Now I have heard the metal of long metal horns ring, if you made the different trumpets 6 feet long there might be more of a difference.

[@nareshkumar4207]

Hi give a talk about antennas.

[@Weaver1812]

Wow. That is a really tough topic!

[@GaryGraham66]

Has any one did the Rubens "cube" joke yet? It should produce s square wave sound.....I'll get my coat.

[@ANOLDMASTERJUKZ]

@6:35 Lead

[@SuperHyperExtra]

Yet, I know clarinet players who spends thousands of dollars on barrels and bells that are made of slightly different woods from each others and tells me the differences in sound are night and day...

[@Javier-qk7ms]

Would love yo ser her myth busting tone woods for eléctric Guitars 😂

[@RWBHere]

Very interesting, but the accompanying soundtrack was completely unnecessary and distracting. Thanks for the demonstrations!

[@amazingartandsciencefactsa9024]

Hello

[@BLECHHAUS]

In the company I use the cardboard cores from foil rolls to play the didgeridoo. Then I enjoy the stupid looks of my colleagues.

[@Hsee-r5p]

Single Neuron in our brain is quantum computer

[@maureensurdez7841]

Dangerous music, musical fire take your pick.

[@digitalwarz]

that is sweet, but it's physics for kids. What about dynamics, momentum, entropy, etc? as a musician , these concepts i use. Nice effort though.

[@leonidreznikov-ol2ym]

Hi, can you teach me how you use entropy in music please? I want to be musician too!

[@dylanbunko340]

All those different materials and not 1 made Dubstep Sounds....😂😂😂

[@theDuctapeUnion]

The safety glasses

[@guyh3403]

The avatar...