I named my instrument the Jingle Jangle Stick. First I had to sand the wood stick with sand paper and then my dad checked it to make sure I wouldn't get slivers. My mom gave me the stick from a field trip that she took her fifth graders on; it was supposed to be made into a shovel handle. The sanding took about five minutes. After that I had to spray paint the outside of the funnel black. That only took one minute. While the funnel dried, my dad showed me how to hammer a hole in the bottle caps and then I did the rest. This took ten minutes. My mom ordered the bottle caps on-line for me. Next I started to put colored electrical tape stripes about every one inch and a half for decoration on the pole. That took about six minutes. Next I held the pole while my dad pre-drilled holes in the pole for nails to go in. Finally it was time to hammer the bottle caps into the pole. He held the pole while I hammered them all in. Those two events took 50 minutes. Then the funnel was dry so I spray painted the inside, which took another minute. The last thing I had to do was tie bells to the funnel and my mom hot glued the funnel to the pole. This all took ten minutes. We found the bells at the dollar store and my mom had the silver cord. The sound that is produced when I shake the stick or pound it on the floor is a jingling sound. To change the dynamics I have to pound it harder to make it loud and pound it softer to make the sound softer. I don't think I can change the pitch because the caps and bells are all the same size. The timbre of my instrument sounds like bells on Santa's sleigh.