How Do You Make A Two-By-Four Xylophone?
The xylophone is a percussion instrument. If the bars are made of metal instead of wood, the instrument is called a metallophone. If they are made of rocks, you call it a lithophone. If they’re made of bone, it’s a bone-ophone. Step 1 Choose a 7- to 8-foot-long two-by-four. Step 2 Cut off a 3-foot piece. This will be the low end of the xylophone. Step 3 Saw progressively shorter pieces at 2-inch intervals. Step 4 Sand the wood to prevent splinters. Step 5 Slide foam pipe insulation along the inside edges of a discarded drawer. Step 6 Lay the pieces of two-by-four across the drawer to form a sounding box. Step 7 Cut two 1/2-inch dowels to about 12 inches long. Step 8 Wrap the ends of the dowels with wide rubber bands to make soft mallets. Step 9 Use small ball-peen hammers for hard mallets.
