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Music & Instruments

3Picture 51  PIANO

Play the piano by pressing the correct keys on the keyboard or by using your mouse to click on the pictured keys.
Picture 97  VIRTUAL KEYBOARD

Choose from a variety of 9 settings for the keyboard including the saxophone.  Select a drum beat and start creating music.
3Picture 71  MAKE YOUR OWN MUSIC GAME

Drag the instruments onto the stage, adjust their volume and record your music. 
3Picture 91  ORCHESTRA GAME

Control the sections; brass, woods, strings, and percussion to create your own music.
3_1_Picture 11  RECORDING STUDIO

Learn a song or create your own music.
3Picture 131  NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC

Go the the composers' gallery, musicians' lounge, game room, instrument storage room, composition workshop and much more.
Picture 183  GUESS THE INSTRUMENT

An orchestra game that plays an instrument and you guess which one it was. 
3Picture 16  DSO KIDS

Listen by instrument or by Composer and learn all about music.
3_2_Picture 71  PERFECT PITCH

Once you get to know the instruments or the orchestra, you'll have a field day making music.
3_2_Picture 14 SAN FRANSISCO SYMPHONY

Visit the music lab or learn about the instruments of the symphony.
3_1_Picture 16  SPHINX KIDS! ORCHESTRATION STATION

Explore the ways a piece of music can sound when played by different instruments.
  SOUNGLE

Royalty free sound effects you can download for your projects.
3Picture 10  JAM STUDIO - CREATE MUSIC BEATS

You set the score, mixer, chords, and sounds to make your own creations.
3Picture 151  THE SOUND FACTORY

This is a fun interactive tool where you use factory sounds to make music.  Very Cool!
Picture 215  STRING THING

Make your own string instrument. Write a song, add a beat, and play it back.
Picture 410  BBC 6 MIXER

Use the samples to make your very own music track.
Picture 114  TONE MATRIX

Drag your mouse across the matrix and make music instantly.  Press the space bar to stop the sound and start over.
Picture 135  COMPOSE MUSIC

Try out your composing skills on the ArtsAlive music staff.  Click and drag the musical notes onto the staff and play back your musical masterpiece.
Picture 163  MUSICAL SKETCH PAD

Here one can ‘draw’ at the level of finger painting and get musical feedback. The participant can choose instrumental color and edit as a composer might, by changing pitches, making things go forward or backward, or inverting and duplicating.
Picture 203  SCIENCE OF MUSIC - KITCHEN SINK

Explore the sounds of the kitchen by rolling over the objects to find the instruments hidden in them.
Picture 226  SCIENCE OF MUSIC - DOT MIXER

You can produce some pretty mixed-up music with the Dot Mixer, partly because the sound samples are from different types of music.
Picture 242  WILD MUSIC

Engage students in the scientific study of sound while exploring the music of the natural world. This site accompanies the traveling exhibit “Wild Music.” It demonstrates how the sound of wildlife and nature inspires the creation of music. Students can compose music from the sounds of nature, compare their own hearing to other animals, and closely examine the sounds of songbirds.