Sound5/Pitch

You can lower the pitch on a guitar by tightening the strings.

• True

• False

Will the pitch be higher or lower if you tighten the string with the peg?

• Lower

• Higher

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

If you hold down the string X at point B, will the pitch be higher or lower than it was before?

• Higher

• Lower

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

How could you make string X have a lower pitch?

• tighten the string with the peg

• Loosen the string with the peg

 How could you make string X have a higher pitch?

• tighten the string with the peg

• Loosen the string with the peg

How could you make string X have a higher pitch?

• Loosen the string with the peg

• make the string shorter by pressing it down

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

When the column of air is long, the sound is____ pitch.

• low

• high

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

When the column of air is short, the sound is ____ pitch.

• low

• high

What is pitch?

• How loud or soft a sound is.

• How high or low sound is.

 

Will the pitch be higher or lower if you loosen the string with the peg?

• lower

• higher