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Summary: See and hear a demonstration of a copper pipe xylophone in action, get expert tips and advice on crafting musical instruments in this free video.
Views: 238 | Tags: crafts, orchestra, xylophones, mallets, marimba
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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 we've made our copper pipe xylophone here, we've tuned it with a grinder, and we've made some mallets to play it with. So now I'm going to test it out, and try playing an original composition of my own, in the Key of C, which is the key that we've made our xylophone in, we're going to see how the piano and the xylophone sounds together. So we can see that it has a really nice sound, and it might just be a little bit off in some cases, might need a little bit of tweaking, but overall it's very, very close. I think this has been a job well done!