Want to play the xylophone but don’t want to learn how? [Rachad]’s automatic xylophone might be just the ticket. It uses homemade solenoids to play tunes under computer control. Think of it as ...

Xylophones can be played solo ... The builder "hangs" the 14 wooden bars over the frame to allow them to vibrate freely. Most Gyils are tuned in the pentatonic scale. Dr Zinovieff was sent ...

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 ...