vibrate more slowly and make lower-pitched sounds. Shorter objects vibrate faster and make higher-pitched sounds. When Xena strikes the bottles with a metal spoon, she causes the bottles and the water ...

Want to play the xylophone but don’t want to learn how? [Rachad]’s automatic xylophone might be just the ticket. It uses homemade solenoids to play tunes under computer control. Think of it as ...

The software transposes the full MIDI music spectrum of a particular track into a 25-note version compatible with the xylophone. Considering that a piano typically has 88 keys, some musical ...

Dr Peter Zinovieff brought along Ghanaian Xylophone (Gyil). It is an instrument traditionally only played by men in Ghana. Xylophones can be played solo, but are also frequently played in pairs ...