How Do You Make A Xylophone Musical Instrument?
The xylophone is a member of the percussion family. Xylophones are made out of wooden bars of different lengths, arranged from shortest to longest on a metal frame. The xylophone is played with wooden or soft mallets, depending on the kind of sound you want to create. Here you’ll use an electronic tuner to shape the rosewood bars for each tone. Make your own two-octave xylophone from scratch. Select your wood. Rosewood is regarded as the best-sounding wood for xylophones. For a two-octave xylophone, you will need 25 bars of rosewood. Each piece should be 12″ long, 2″ wide, and 1″ thick. Cut a small crescent out of the center of the back of each bar so that it is slightly thicker at the ends than in the center. Tune the bars. Set the electronic tuner to C. Lay one bar on the floor and gently tap with a mallet or dowel. Using a saw, shorten the pieces of wood 1/8″ at a time until it rings at the desired pitch. Each piece should be tuned one half-step apart so that you have all of the not
