The xylophone is played with two-handed small hard or soft hammers. When played with a hammer, it can produce a woody, hard and cold, less reverberating, high-cold, crisp, and granular sound, which is very suitable for playing various forms of scales, arpeggios, glissando, vibrato, rolls, doubles. Tricky phrases for pitching, jumping in, and even jumping in from a distance. The xylophone can b...

At present, the xylophones used in our country can be divided into two types according to their shapes: one is called trapezoid or grand piano, and the other is called horizontal row Qin or marimba. The arrangement and playing methods are quite different. A brief introduction is given below. Trapezoid The trapezoid is played with a straight wrist, and the player strikes the keys with tw...

The basic structure of the xylophone is composed of several long and short hardwood sound bars arranged in parallel on a shelf. Band xylophones come in two forms. The more common one is the vertical type. That is, the sound bars are arranged in two columns like the black and white keys of a piano, and there is a metal resonance tube under each sound bar. The sound range is generally C(4)/C(8) or F...