Xylophone toy build

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Xylophone toy build

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Building a xylophone-like toy for kids. I spent a lot of time on getting the sound right. Makes it tempting to build a Marimba, but I wouldn't be playing it.
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@ThisOldTony 4 жыл бұрын

I'm no optometrist, but I wasn't expecting that'd sound that good!

@wobblysauce 4 жыл бұрын

Wintergatan gets around...

@spudpud-T67 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamescollier3 Nah they measure in damn imperial, hoping for metric is optimistic.

@raymitchell9736 4 жыл бұрын

You've given me my newest favorite woodworking phrase: "Retroactive precision" it is as good as "percussive maintenance"; which would be appropriate in this case.

@HWPcville 4 жыл бұрын

A sander and paint make me the carpenter I ain't. (caulking helps to).

@BirdYoumans 4 жыл бұрын

I built one for my grand kids and had a great time learning the tuning process. I used a spindle sander and learned to tune the upper harmonic. I found that if you tune it (the harmonic) up an octave and a 5th, the sound is a lot better. Has more body to the sound, but it takes some doing and a good ear. The tuner only hears the fundamental, but if you listen close, you will hear an upper "note". You can control them by taking more from the edges of the concave underneath. I got way deeper into the weeds once I started learning about it than I originally intended, but it was a fun summer project. Wound up with 10 notes that sounded pretty good. I used pegs with the hole drilled at the node and these little round fuzzy feet I found at lowe's that have glue on one side and are used for things like feet for band saw boxes or jewelry boxes etc. One on each side of the peg. Worked great. I'll have to try the hardwood flooring as I have some ash left over from my house. Yours sounded good. Love your channel!

@johnhakala6930 3 жыл бұрын

@sephalon1 4 жыл бұрын

Matthias, inspired by Wintergatan, who was in turn inspired by Matthias.

@jbkibs 4 жыл бұрын

Wintergatan is so badass man.

@andreaslied7077 4 жыл бұрын

That's youtubeception right there.

@cliveso 4 жыл бұрын

That's why KZfaq is such an excellent thing!

@IrishAnonymous01 4 жыл бұрын

Winter-gatAN

@rasmis 4 жыл бұрын

@@IrishAnonymous01 I didn't understand what he said, so I had to rewind. WinterGAtan in Swedish. MÆLKevejen in Danish. MILKyway in English.

@MenaceManTV 4 жыл бұрын

The amount of love you put into making a toy for your kids is truly beautiful.

@user-sb3wh3dd4v 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful project for a child! Your engineering know-how and intuition guided you well Sir! In case you’re interested, those note are from the bottom up: F#, B, E, G#, B, D#. So… The top 3 notes make a G# minor triad. The next three notes ( E, G#, B) render an E major triad. Together, the top FOUR notes form an E major seventh tetrad. Adding the B below that maintains the E major quality, it’s just with the 5th in the bass. The low F# could be considered a 9th, compared to E. Voicing the 9 on the bottom of major chords is interesting because it is so ambiguous… a beautiful sound! This would be a delightful tuning for wind-chimes too!

@arminbuch9386 4 жыл бұрын

I was hoping for someone to analyze what Matthias came up with just by intuition :)

@AngryArmadillo 4 жыл бұрын

Perfect pitch is a true superpower.

@ricos1497 4 жыл бұрын

@@AngryArmadillo I have perfect pitch, but I don't know the names of the notes.

@blairybums 4 жыл бұрын

I was just about to say the exact same thing but you beat me to it 🥴

@JohnWC134 4 жыл бұрын

@@ricos1497 pretty sure thats not a thing

@simoncushman1013 4 жыл бұрын

To accurately find the nodes, sprinkle salt or sugar granules in the approximate area and watch them all converge and focus in a line while you gently tap with a mallet and voila - the location of your node!

@matthiaswandel 4 жыл бұрын

my procedure doesn't require making a mess

@Yonatan24 4 жыл бұрын

@@matthiaswandel *BREAKING NEWS:* Woodworker who cares about making a mess spotted in Canda, more information coming very soon.

@kellcomnet 4 жыл бұрын

Matthias, your love of family and giving gifts from your heart not just spending money is inspiring.

@PKMartin 4 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of my dad - when we were kids and he had a scrap bit of steel pipe he worked out the lengths to produce a nice pentatonic scale and built wind chimes out of it.

@simoncushman1013 4 жыл бұрын

Also, removing material from the centre will lower the pitch but you don't have to shorten them to raise the pitch - you can remove material from the ends by drilling shallow holes, and this will prevent the node from moving.

@UberAlphaSirus 4 жыл бұрын

Does ot matter to drill from the bottom or the ends? I presume you do it equally both ends?

@simoncushman1013 4 жыл бұрын

@@UberAlphaSirus From the bottom, towards the end of the wooden key and yes, an equal amount from both ends.

@tobleroni 4 жыл бұрын

Great build Matthias. You can also easily find the nodes by putting salt on the bar near the nodes then striking it. The salt will collect in a straight line across the bar right on the node.

@Pablo4949 4 жыл бұрын

I love that Martin from Wintergatan has taken inspiration from Matthias before, and now Matthias is taking some inspiration from Martin.

@BrokenLifeCycle 4 жыл бұрын

To really complete that circle, all Matthias needs to do now is make wooden vibraphone bars for the MMX.

@Mike-tb2hw 4 жыл бұрын

You mean "Winter-gah-tahn"? lol

@patrol681 4 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful toy you have made for your kids. It is not so much the toy itself, but the amount of patience and logic that you have employed, that warrants the appreciative comments that you get. Good for you Matthias!!

@giovanni9045 4 жыл бұрын

No matter how simple your project may seem at first, you always show great intelligence and attention to detail.

@daniel923e 4 жыл бұрын

You are a genius of woodworking.

@BEM684 4 жыл бұрын

First woodworking video in a few months to get added to my saved list. A great idea and a resfreshing change from the usual shop jigs and outdoor furniture videos that are all over KZfaq. Thanks!

@oldmgbs2 4 жыл бұрын

You are a good dad. The kids will love it.

@akquicksilver 4 жыл бұрын

Retro-active precision! I have a jar of that on the shelf! Cool build!

@hogpsking33 4 жыл бұрын

It makes my little youtube watching heart happy to know that you're watching Wintergatan videos.

@lDanielHolm 4 жыл бұрын

We had wooden xylophones much like these at my school in the mid-to-late 90's.

@cliveclapham6451 4 жыл бұрын

We had them at schools in the 60s😊

@lDanielHolm 4 жыл бұрын

@@cliveclapham6451 Oh, I have no doubt they're much older than my experience -- but I don't know how much, so I can't comment on that.

@cliveclapham6451 4 жыл бұрын

@@lDanielHolm give it time😊

@EnriqueBottttt 4 жыл бұрын

@@cliveclapham6451 Those were likely Orff Instruments that we still make use of today. They were named for the composer Carl Orff who is most known for his piece Carmina Burana and more specifically "Oh Fortuna." They are excellent tools for music instruction

@magicrobharv 4 жыл бұрын

Matt, that sounds a lot better than I thought it would. It actually sounds "warmer" then the toy metal xylophones. Beautiful project. Did you put your name anywhere underneath it - an artist signing his work so that the next generation will know who built it ? That looks like an heirloom that would be passed down from generation to generation. Great video.

@stratoside4765 4 жыл бұрын

lmao you serious? heirloom? man people these days

@Stevenpwalsh 4 жыл бұрын

@@stratoside4765 It'll be passed down, but probably more in the "this is something cool my dad made"

@Bloeki123 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Because xylophones are made of wood. If they were made of metal they would be called metallophone or glockenspiel.

@blzt3206 4 жыл бұрын

@@stratoside4765 don't be an ass

@magicrobharv 4 жыл бұрын

@@stratoside4765 Could the xylophone be an heirloom? Absolutely. A family heirloom doesn’t have to be an expensive object. It can have meaning and intrinsic value for many reasons. Objects that you couldn’t sell for a nickel at a garage sale can be priceless to family members. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have only 2 items from my parents. One is a cheap ceramic wall décor item, purchased in the 1950 - 1960’s. Nothing special about it. But it is priceless to me and I will pass it down to my children when I am no longer here. The value is in the connection it has, to a shared family history - to a time that links the past to the present. Maybe the xylophone will end up like so many toys, it will disappear from memory and be discarded to make way for new items. Maybe Matt will recycle it as his children grow older. Who knows? I was just imagining a person in the future picking up the xylophone and wondering - who made it, who played with it? Maybe I am being overly sentimental. Just a thought.

@johnbarneswood 4 жыл бұрын

I love how you already know what your kids are going to do and plan accordingly

@TheMick26 4 жыл бұрын

Nice job, Matthias. Generally speaking, the node point is 22.4% of the total length away from the end. That is how tubular chimes work anyway. I assume the same would apply to wood blocks.

@cspann831 4 жыл бұрын

I was gonna ask- how did you come up with that number? Since I'm more of a visual learner I'll give the ol' salt trick a go. My dad and I actually made one of these things out of pine scrap when I was a kid and without knowing nodes or anything it actually worked pretty darn good. Now I have some rosewood cutoffs and "node knowledge" I an try it again with my grandson.

@munjee2 4 жыл бұрын

Its always nice when youtube recommends me your videos every 6-7 months

@macsheldon 4 жыл бұрын

Soooo much more pleasing than the electronic sounds of video games!

@dharmeshsolanki4354 4 жыл бұрын

the last part makes me smile 😀 6:16

@BernardSandler 4 жыл бұрын

This was so you. It was so good to see. Investigation, observation, innovation, thing you can bang on to make music. And anticipation of the destructive potential of little ones. And retroactive precision.

@jackmcslay 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if wintergatan will react to this by trying to make plywood xylophone plates for the marble machine x

@azyfloof 4 жыл бұрын

Get ready for another "Fear is temporary, glory is forever" video 😮

@matthiaswandel 4 жыл бұрын

but fame only lasts 15 minutes.

@suit1337 4 жыл бұрын

no worries, in about a year someone will machine them out of clear PMMA for him

@adrianwilliams763 4 жыл бұрын

Part 2: Hearing protection for the rest of the family.....

@GingerguysShittyYoutube 4 жыл бұрын

Hearing about Wintergatan in a Matthias' video - best crossover I have ever seen.

@thesfreader3068 4 жыл бұрын

Quite roundabout since Wintergatan was admitedly wildly inspired by Matthias's toys :)

@MrQuickLine 4 жыл бұрын

Wintergatan mentions Matthias often in his videos.

@melanieshelton7566 4 жыл бұрын

Really impressive, and I’m confident your two year old will love it.

@andrewcady9443 4 жыл бұрын

I bought a cheap glockenspiel that supports the bars using a square "rod" of foam sheet material. (Like a strip cut off the edge of a sheet, with the width the same as the thickness.) It is held in a V grove so that the bars sit on the corner of the foam, not on the flat. It works really well -- the thing sounds great. The method of holding them down is basically the same as what you did here, except with a washer that is glued to the screw (or rivet) so that it doesn't rest on the bars.

@KaleidoscopeJunkie 4 жыл бұрын

Your extensive efforts to find the best pitch will be a blessing to your ears in the future.

@ajl9491 4 жыл бұрын

Fine work there Geppetto.....

@kiwdwks 4 жыл бұрын

Nicely done...you always figure out a way!

@DanielH 4 жыл бұрын

First time seeing this using wood. Really impressed

@justTJRoots 4 жыл бұрын

Very good Matthias, the perfect gift for other peoples' kids ;)

@larryfisher7056 4 жыл бұрын

Retroactive Precision.......love it

@kimphila 4 жыл бұрын

I keep wishing the largest piece sounded a little lower.

@rainerzufall689 4 жыл бұрын

I guess it already went through the saw 3 times and was still too high ;-)

@SexyLutesTBone 4 жыл бұрын

Missed these type of videos, experimenting and of course the thriftyness

@nicolek4076 4 жыл бұрын

Wintergarten also noted that the bars on his xylophone have a sweet spot which is not in the middle, but offset toward one end.

@matthiaswandel 4 жыл бұрын

that's for hitting them. I was looking for the dead spot, which is the best place to mount them.

@sapelesteve 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent kids toy Matthias! Everyone knows how much kids love to bang on things. You're videos are always informative & I always learn a little something along the way..................

@OnkelPeters 4 жыл бұрын

Hey! Inspiration between two of my favourite youtubers! Wintergatan was inspired by Matt’s marble machines, Matt is inspired by the zylophone tinkering by Wintergatan 👍🏼

@DeweyKentM 4 жыл бұрын

There’s a channel that I don’t think I saw in your subscriptions called Pask Makes. He has some amazing woodworking videos, including a marimba build. If you haven’t already heard of him, or his scrapwood challenge, I highly recommend you check him out. Great video!

@matthiaswandel 4 жыл бұрын

yes, I saw that one when I was researching a bit.

@TrainFlood 4 жыл бұрын

Another wonderful and thoughtful creation!

@nobuckle40 4 жыл бұрын

You're having so much fun with it that you might be tempted to keep it and make something else for them. Pretty cool for Just Throwin' It Together.

@_P0tat07_ 4 жыл бұрын

I cant wait to see videos of your kids trying in on after Christmas!

@boatworkstoday 4 жыл бұрын

Very close design to the one I made for my Girls a few years back; they still play with it :-) Made mine out of Sapele

@lewerim 4 жыл бұрын

Retroactive precision! My favorite kind of precision...

@rebbel67 4 жыл бұрын

Retro-active precision; new, in my vocabulary (and workflow)!

@nfix09 4 жыл бұрын

nice, I remember seeing Pask Makes doing a proper full marimba build. really want to do a big build like that one day, but this scale looks a lot more approachable for my current skill level

@kennethkustren9381 4 жыл бұрын

I would say.... the wood, the woodgrain, and the grain direction will all have not-so-subtle attributes for the sound. Humidity in the wood also.

@suit1337 4 жыл бұрын

you being inspired by wintergatan sounds rather dangerous, since wintergatan was inspired by your marble machines what's next? in order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion 😂

@wade2361 4 жыл бұрын

It's woodworking turtles all the way down.

@insanegammer109 4 жыл бұрын

@sunduijavsumyasuren7999 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Matthias. Very nice

@sergeduval1391 4 жыл бұрын

wonderful technician Merry Christmas

@k.medeiros1983 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent, it will be a fond childhood memory

@CRUZER1800 4 жыл бұрын

Matthias,... your children are fortunate to have a father like you. Russ

@jbkibs 4 жыл бұрын

yeah man, it's easy to remove too much when tuning. i make flutes and wind chimes, to tune them... you have to be VERY careful as to not remove too much. do everything like this, file/sand one pass, test. it's tedious. you CAN add material back, but it's not ideal. I love the project, it sounds great! Plus the sweet angled box joints, nice touch man. :D

@eucalyptus_ribose 4 жыл бұрын

wow it sounds beautiful

@dianecharles8748 4 жыл бұрын

Hello from Victoria Australia, thank you, I love your videos and all the things you make,very entertaining.thank you.

@Heroasaurus 4 жыл бұрын

The best youtube channel.

@IEnjoyCreatingVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Nice work on the Xylophone Matthias! Thank you for sharing the video with us.👌👍😎JP

@ScrapwoodCity 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@wgm-en2gx 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, that sounded pretty good!

@Gun5hip 4 жыл бұрын

super fun toy build

@jatcod24sci 4 жыл бұрын

It's good to see you building again. My Dad and I made a xylophone about 40 years ago. Simple wood frame with a strip of green felt glued to the top. The sound bars were scraps of metal trailer tie down straps held in place by two nails in oversize holes. I still have it in storage somewhere.

@cpeterson877 4 жыл бұрын

Another: Great Idea; Great Work; Great Video Editing. Your channel is among a handful that are not just informative but entertaining.

@BushImports 4 жыл бұрын

that largest/longest one still sounded sort of dead. It turned out nice, I guess the most important thing is if your little one likes it.

@jasonsocquet8555 4 жыл бұрын

Looks nice and sounds great! I'm sure it'll get a lot of playtime

@SindriDiego 4 жыл бұрын

that clamping with the wingnut is so simple and good always learn something smart from your videos.

@briannelson605 4 жыл бұрын

Can you play the xylophone with the cap launcher?

@GRichardWrotten 4 жыл бұрын

I took a class in college called the physics of music and it was amazing. Breaking down how vibrations travel and how to mathematically determine the modes and nodes of a specific note determined by density of the material. I wish I had kept the textbook. I think the professor, dr. Worman wrote it, titled also, the physics of music. No internet search has yielded productive results. :(

@Syrkyth 4 жыл бұрын

Retroactive precision, I'v got to use that next time I fine tune one of my dad's DIY projects ;D

@jairounvet 4 жыл бұрын

A blues pentatonic scale would work for this project if you look to improve the design in the future.

@daftnord4957 4 жыл бұрын

marimba keys are suspended by paracord. a good way to let the blocks resonate

@TK-eg6vp 4 жыл бұрын

As a percussionist, I approve of this build!

@fartking2845 4 жыл бұрын

Still waiting for a homemade skee ball machine *crosses fingers*

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness ... the best 80s rhythms of Matthias Wandel. Congratulations, a great choice of toys for kids.

@luissamayoa8824 4 жыл бұрын

congratulations Matthias . the best wood for that piano is called Hormigo only in Guatemala comes

@heroindoses1991 4 жыл бұрын

Dude, if u can somehow dial in the tuning on these I swear people would buy them! As a drummer i'm super interested. Make another mallet so u can then play chords too?! I want one

@matthiaswandel 4 жыл бұрын

people would buy them for a price at which it's not worth making them.

@heroindoses1991 4 жыл бұрын

@@matthiaswandel true, well i'm inspired none the less 👍🏻

@bob-ny6kn 4 жыл бұрын

My doorbell uses SPHERICAL rubber bushings on top and bottom. Maybe one on the bottom of your build would suffice (with felt on top).

@jshpaint 4 жыл бұрын

You’re brilliant

@allenomak 4 жыл бұрын

You should work more with resonant cavities! Super interesting!

@chrisgriffith1573 4 жыл бұрын

Really Cool!

@jgriff19861947 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice work and ideal

@MFunkibut 4 жыл бұрын

Retroactive Percision is actually the name of my band. We're available for car dealership openings, bat mitzvahs but not bar mitzvahs and Presidential Impeachments. We're picky because we're TRUE artists :)