Making a Copper Pipe Xylophone

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In this series we're going to talk about different aspects of the xylophone. We're going to go over how a xylophone is tuned. Without any kind of tuning capability, we have to have way to get the metal to the size we want to make the pitch we want. We're also going to talk about how to pick the right octave for our xylophone. Octaves can span anywhere, anywhere on a chart. There could be ten octaves. We couldn't hear all of them. But, there could be ten. But we're just going to make one octave. So we're going to talk about how to find that desirable pitch, that desirable octave that we want to play our music in. Other things we're going to talk about is the kind of metal we want to use to make a xylophone. For our purposes today we're going to be using copper piping. We're going to talk about what kind of piping we want to buy, how thick we want it and the kind of metal we want to look for when we're shopping for copper pipe. So today, we're going to look at a real xylophone that's been orchestrally tuned. We're going to investigate how it's been tuned. Then we're going to redo that process using our own metal.

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