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Summary: Attaching the B note pipe for a copper pipe xylophone is easy with these tips, get expert advice on crafting musical instruments in this free video.
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The next thing we're going to do is we're going to attach the B to our xylophone holder. So we're going to thread our note, as we've done before. There we go. Now we're going to get the xylophone. OK, we've threaded it through. And be careful to make sure that we don't lose the string here because we don't want to have to re-thread this. Threading it is probably one of the hardest parts of this whole project. Then, again we're going to go right over left and under. Remember, on the last one we had about two inches of excess. So we want to copy that. We're going to go left over right and under.