The Invention Hunters Discover How Sound Works

“The Magic School Bus meets The Way Things Work in this funny guide to the science behind sound, acoustics, and music that features approachable explanations, simple diagrams, and plenty of kid-friendly humor.”

Author/Illustrator: Korwin Briggs | Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young Readers

By the time I started researching this book, I’d been playing guitar (or, well, playing with a guitar) for three years, and it turns out I’d been completely wrong about how it worked. I’d thought that the sound we hear is the vibration of the string echoing around inside the hollow bit. It turns out that the string vibrates the big piece of wood on the front of the guitar (the piece with the hole in it) and that vibration echoes around inside the hollow bit.

The more you know.