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Summary: Attaching the D pipe of a xylophone is easy with these tips, get expert advice on crafting musical instruments in this free video.
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Benjamin Hehn Benjamin Hehn has lived most of his life in Northbridge Massachusetts near the site of a Native American Massacre. Much of his childhood was spent searching f... read more
So now we're ready to put the "d" onto our xylophone. So what we're going to do, as we've done before, we're going to thread the needle. So if you do this in the morning, you've drank a few cups of coffee already, you might have a little bit of a tougher time threading these needles, but it's still possible because I'm on my third cup. Alright, so now, we're going to go again, right over left and under, followed by left over right and under. And we're going to remember that for all the other notes on this thing, we've given it two inches of give to our eight inch string. I'm trying to make this one no different. We've got, we're looking good so far.