Tuesday Treasures. This instrument is one of a handful of items I inherited from my grandfather. It is portable and I show it partially assembled, with the left side still in disarray from being carried around.I've seen this described as an obsolete instrument. It has a lot in common with a xylophone or a glockenspiel, but Cap called this a marimbaphone so that's what I call it.
You tap the steel bars with wooden mallets. If you can play a piano, you can play this instrument. Personally, I'd much rather listen to a piano because these keys sound high and shrill to me.
He also played piano and accordion. He would entertain us kids by pounding out ragtime on my mother’s piano.
A xylofon.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a local museum would like to have it.
ReplyDelete...similar instruments go by many different names.
ReplyDeleteSometimes there are songs written just for certain instruments...I wonder...
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful treasure!! Great that you have that.
ReplyDeleteIt must have been a fun time listening to him play such instruments. What a wonderful way to create fond family memories.
ReplyDeleteA rare sight.
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