[Rachad]’s automatic xylophone might be just the ticket ... strikers instead of piano keys. You can hear the instrument in action in the video below. Since the project required 24 solenoids ...

Miller] applied the standard in his decidedly analog self-playing robotic xylophone. Framed inside a fetching Red Oak enclosure, the 25-key instrument uses individual solenoids for each key ...

Some, like Kouyaté, play a xylophone-like instrument called the balafon. Stein joined Kouyaté, who had relocated to America, in a journey back to Mali and Guinea. There, Stein would come to ...

The xylophone, also under our roof years ago, was the instrument least likely to make me consider spiking the gravy. Neighbours contend that a beginner on a clarinet can strip hair from your ears.

As you might have guessed, that means this is an instrument family with a huge amount of variety, ranging from the triangle to large keyboard percussion instruments like the xylophone. But broadly ...