It produces a unique brittle metallic sound. The quality of sound produced by a xylophone typically depends on the skill level of the player. The mallet is also crucial to the sound produced; mallet grip is an important technique for playing the xylophone. World View. When playing, the musician stands at the xylophone with the bars lying lengthwise in front of him, pointing toward him.
One or more mallets can be held in each hand. A xylophone produces sound when its wooden or composite material bars are struck with a hard rubber or plastic mallet.
The pitch of each of the bars is determined by the length of the bar: Longer bars have a lower pitch; shorter bars have a higher pitch. The bars are tuned to the standard note chromatic scale, and are arranged on the frame of the instrument like a piano keyboard, with the "black keys" raised above and overlapping the "naturals.
The bars of the xylophone are tuned not only by their length, but by cutouts on the underside of each bar. The cello averages the pitch. A glass harp is tuned by adding water into each glass until reaching the desired pitch. By varying the water level the pitch changes in the same way a string sounds when applying different tensions.
The water levels can be easily determined by using a chromatic instrument tuner. Pitch is related to frequency. Changing the number of vibrations per second changes the pitch.
Each fork is stamped with the note it produces e.
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