Questions tagged [xylophone]
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What is the difference between a xylophone, a glockenspiel, a marimba, a xylorimba and a marimbaphone?
What is the difference between an xylophone and a marimba? What about a glockenspiel and a xylophone? Is it just the material and size of glockenspiel?
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Creating a xylophone out of copper pipes
I have been trying to create a xylophone out of copper pipes for a school project and have been running into a few problems with calculating the length of each bar. I have been using this paper as reference, specifically equation (1). I have cut two…
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How to calculate the size of a xylophone bar according to its pitch
I am new to StackExchange, and I have a question about a school project I'm working on involving constructing an instrument. I am building a xylophone-glockenspiel-mash kind of thing, but I wanted to save some money on materials and I need to…
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Custom xylophone sticks?
I just bought a second hand xylophone - without sticks. (It was just under $9...) So I wonder, what can I use as a substitute? Right now, I can't get to a music store but I in a few weeks I can, if that is necessary. But for now, anything someone…
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Why is my copper xylophone's pitch so erratic?
I am building a homemade xylophone out of copper pipes. I want it to be accurate if I measure it for 5 seconds and take the average pitch. For my F4 pipe for example, when I do this, it tends to go really high (somewhere around A7 usually) and then…
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Creating color coded playing instruction for xylophones
I want to create simple playing instructions for a child to be played on an eight-note xylophone where each tone has a unique color. The instructions should be color coded too. They should be recognisable for smaller children. Is there some tool or…
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Bell kit (xylophone) out of tune?
My kid just got a new used bell kit (glockenspiel) for school (we were renting hers, but we just decided to buy a second-hand one from a kid who quit). The new bells have a tuning problem- every chromatic bar sounds the same as the note one…
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What is a "bass xylophone"?
In the instrumentation of the opera Turandot there is something called bass xylophone, but I couldn't find many things about it. What is it? And, since it doesn't seem to be a common instrument, how do orchestras substitute it if they doesn't have…
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