07.01 musical instruments

Why look at musical instruments? They come in different sizes. They reveal how they are made and detailed. The materials are simple, mostly limited to wood and metal. Musical instruments reveal their purpose or function, which is to produce unique sounds. Musical instruments appear simple, but are highly complex.

Task 1: Each student finds five unique instrument drawings from the US Patent web site. Consult with your musical instrument team (shown below). Download the TIFF image; open file in Photoshop; adjust Pixel Aspect Ratio to Square; change image mode to Grayscale; change image mode to RGB; save as JPG file (10 maximum); upload images to the shared folder on the server.

• saxophone (Danley, Smith, Sena)
• trumpet (Brockman, Slavin, Nepsund)
• drum (Sands, Tran, Fancher)
• piano (Babb, Samuel, Arellano)
• bass (Falcon, Card, Mecklin)

Due: Mon. Jan. 29. 9am.