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Wooden Xylophone Anyone Can Make
If you're looking for a great percussion instrument, then a wooden xylophone is an instrument you must consider Over the years the xylophone has evolved to look and sound differently. It changed shape and size as its construction changed. Sometimes its made out of wood, pipe, bone or even fiberglass! The xylophone also paved the way for its harsher sounding metal cousins; the glockenspiels and vibraphones. Now although the word "xylophone" is less than two hundred years old, the instrument has been around for centuries. Wood; being a very common building material gave rise to numerous musical instruments, among which are the wooden xylophones and it's cousins marimbas. It has been many years since the first wooden xylophone was made. The one that history remembers was found in China. It is dated over 2,000 B.C. and exemplified the simplicity of the instrument. The xylophone features bars of varying lengths, arranged from shortest to longest, intertwined to allow the vibration to carry well. The origin of the xylophone is hard to pin-point. There is evidence to suggest that there were wooden xylophones created independently in Asia and Africa. These xylophones went wherever their owners went, and so they made their way around the world. Today they can be found in classrooms all over the country. Student xylophones are quite popular in North American, after studies conducted showed that they aid in cultivating musical talent in kids. While the more expensive woods are not used to build the vast majority of wooden xylophones, due to the rising demand, more contemporary materials are used. The modern western-style xylophone has bars made rosewood, paddock, or various synthetic materials including fibreglass or fibreglass-reinforced plastics. All that produces a louder sound and makes the xylophone a strong orchestra piece. Some wooden xylophones can be as small as 2 1/2 octaves but concert xylophones are typically 3 1/2 or 4 octaves. What's common about the concert xylophones is that they use resonators to further enhance the tone wave. The quality of the xylophone will reflect in the way that its stand is made. The more expensive xylophones provide more stability and often have a way to adjust the bar height. In other music cultures; xylophone have wooden bars and wooden frames, but instead of pipe resonators, dried fruit shells are used to carry the sound. If you choose to build your own wooden xylophone then whichever kind of wood you select, you must pay attention to its condition. Make sure that the wood doesn't have any kinks or curves; that it's straight and free of knots and cracks. It's always a good idea to buy more wood than you need, in case you make errors in cutting, assembly or tuning phases. Also if you have wood from the same batch, in the future, if you need to replace any bars on your xylophone, then it's better to not face the problem of finding wood of equal quality, color and density.
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