Quiz: Mechanisms Behind the Music

Musical instruments have a mystical quality to them. In the right hands, they can create wondrous sound. But the hands that created such marvels were also inventing wondrous mechanisms.

Take a look at any woodwind instrument, with its multitude of keys, or the inside of an enormous piano, and the engineering beneath the surface becomes clear. Do you know how a piano’s hammers work? What makes notes possible on trumpets and flutes? Read on and find out.