Charles Taylor recreates the famous Chadni figures and shows how vibrating plates are used to make music in various instruments.
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Charles Taylor gave the 1989 Christmas Lectures "Exploring Music" about how science and music are often treated as separate subjects but one can often say a lot about the other.
His third lecture, where this clip is from, explores how flat plates and hollow bodies work to create and amplify music.
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