Spacing the Notes on a Copper Pipe Xylophone

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Now it's time to prepare the bar that's going to hold the xylophone notes. Now, our xylophone is going to look kind of like a chime. And the notes are going to hang vertically from the bar, But before we cut our bar we need to know how far apart we want our notes. Now since these pipes are three-quarters of an inch we want to give ourselves enough room to hit a note singularly without affecting the other notes so we can have a clear tone every time we play. However, we don't want them too far apart because it's not going to be a very usable instrument. It's not going to be an easily playable instrument either if we have them too far apart. So I'm going to suggest that we give each of our notes one and a half inches of grace between each other when we're measuring our, when we're measuring the place we're going to cut holes in our pipe. So if we have eight notes times one and a half inches, that's going to give us 12 inches. We're going to add one more inch on each side so that we can connect a holder to it. So, doing the math, that's fourteen inches that we're going to need to make our xylophone holder. So, we're going to go ahead and make that cut. We're going to measure fourteen inches. Make a divot. And in the next part we're going to make our cut and drill the holes for our xylophone holder.

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