xylophone

Introduction

The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden (not steel) bars struck by mallets. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use. The term may be used generally, to include all such instruments, such as the marimba and balafon or, more specifically, to refer to an orchestral instrument of somewhat higher pitch range than the chromatic marimba.

Reflection

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We visited the Rhythm Band again today. I and another teammate tried to play the xylophone. The xylophone was not bit but it could sound loud. I made mistakes a lot.

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It was December 20th today. I tried to play the xylophone with Hsing-yen today. At first there were no one to teach us so we couldn’t play it at all. It was really hard.

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I and Chia-yin played the xylophone today. A boy came to teach us for a little while, so we could only play the part he taught us. After he left, we played nothing at all!