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During one of my Rockler orders a couple of years ago I picked up this xylophone kit - I think it was on sale. It sat around for a while, but now that I have a toddler who is obsessed with drumming and music I figured it was time to get it done. It took a very long time to find the shop time...

I used these plans to build this xylophone for my four year old son. This is the first project I have ever made using metric measurements and to my surprise, I found it much easier! I mitered the corners of the box so that way the grain of the wood continues around the box. I did not use any...

Here's a wooden xylophone I made as a gift for my nephew. As usual, I forgot to take good pictures of the project when it was complete, though it is visible in the picture I took of my nephew-as you can see, he is sitting on the edge of the xylophone while playing with the rocking chair I made...

I made two xylophones at the same time for my two nephews. I was really happy with the way these turned out, considering that I had no plans to go by. I found a picture on the internet of a plastic croc xylophone and tried to copy that, but with my own flare. Such as hanging it on the wall...

This xylophone was supposed to be a two-weekend project but it turned out spanning across 2-3 months as shop time became very scarce. This is anything but fine woodworking as the resonator box is made of butt-joined and nailed plywood. The bars are made of Paduk and tuning them was actually...

Yes this is a wood project, just look at those dovetails in the base! I made this for a child's Christmas present. It is a full C scale octave plus a high D. Of course you could add more tubes at either end to lengthen the scale, or even add the sharps and flats to make a more versatile...

This was one of the Christmas gifts that I made for my daughter (she'll be 2 on Feb 20); it is made out of Sapele and heartwood of a huge birch tree that I had milled from our property (the same birch that I made her crib out of :-) This project was actually 1 of 4 gift ideas that I video'd and...

Xylophone for the lil boy. Made from walnut, assembled w/ glue and dowels to reinforce. The hardest part was getting it to sound decent and have some resonance. Tried everything from screws only, to straws as some suggest, to rubber washers and felt, just rubber washers, the best sounding...

Here is another project I made for my wife's music class. She had more students than instruments so she asked if I would make her a xylophone. She has a number of these in her class purchased from Suzuki and they cost about $300 each. Her classroom budget did not support buying another so she...

This one makes me smile (and sometimes laugh) for a number of reasons. The Cricket Xylophone was the first project that I designed and built for the Nov/Dec 1998 issue of Woodworker's Journal. Just to keep things straight, my cricket is the one in the opening photo with the wooden tone bars...

My daughter is in a movement and music class, song and dance too I suppose, with the music component performed entirely on xylophones. The teacher is trained in the Orff system, a method that teaches music much like learning a new language, something that young kids absorb easily. Xylophones are...

My attaempt at a wooden Xylophone, for a little person. The carcase is Spruce finished with water base Poly, the Keys are Purpleheart finished with equal parts BLO/Oil base Poly/Spirits. Interior soundboard and dividers are plywood, for amplification and resonance. Not chromatically correct, but...