Most people just go about their lives not even caring what sound is. One man named Galileo was very interested in sound and was the greatest contributor to the understanding of sound. He demonstrated that the frequency of sound waves determined the pitch. Though, what is sound, how is sound made, how is sound articulated on a violin, why is sound production necessary to a good musician and what are the uses of sound.

Sound is a mechanical wave that is a effect from longitudinal movement by the particles that the sound wave is moving through. Sound is sometimes measured in the air. If a sound wave was moving from side to side in the air, then the particles in the air would be put out of place rightward and leftward as the energy of sound waves pass though the air. The motion of the...