Why do certain materials make more noise than others?

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For example, glass and metal dishes create so much noise that the gods would hear it, but plastic masks a lot of noise when I put dishes away.

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https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia_of_music/C/C.html

On an 88 key piano, middle C has a frequency of 261.621Hz (cycles per second) based on a reference frequency 440Hz for the A above middle C.

From C4 to C5 it is double the frequency, from C4 to C3 it’s half the frequency. There is a pic in the link above.

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ELI5: Basically, I would imagine some objects sound louder than others depending on how many times the sound waves are able to bounce off a certain material (glass, plastic, etc).

How this is determined I have no idea how. I’m actually just guessing.

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According to this link: https://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html

Speed of Sound = 345 m/s = 1130 ft/s = 770 miles/hr

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