Sonor / 13 Bar Glockenspiel (Xylophone) Review

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This beautiful-sounding glockenspiel is quite suitable for all ages, even adults,

as long as you don't mind not having all the accidentals. The sound is LOVELY --

Beautiful and bell-like

It is in tune, and is easy to play. It is actually an 11-bar instrument, with 2 extra

bars: F sharp and B flat. The range is from a C to the F an octave and a half

above the C. It comes with 2 wooden mallets, which fit nicely onto the side.

Sonor makes high-quality xylophones and glockenspiels.

The only difference between this child's glockenspiel and an adult's is that

this child's glockenspiel has a plastic, not wooden, resonator, and the bars

are plain steel, not a special alloy, and it has fewer bars. (It also costs a lot

less than a fancier glockenspiel or xylophone.)

I am really enjoying learning to play this lovely instrument!

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This xylophone is an excellent first instrument. It is tuned to perfection and has provided many hours of fun for my grandchild. Very, very good buy.

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We replaced a crude Melissa & Doug xylophone that our nearly 4 year old boy showed interest since being a baby. I researched a bit and decided on this pricey German product. What a difference! This sounds professional and both parents and the kid rotate playing with it. It's quite loud too so beware. It comes with two "sticks" which is handy when two people want to play together or if one breaks

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Although this xylophone was a little smaller than I expected, the quality of it more than makes up for any momentary disappointment I might have had. This is precision tuned and the pitch is spot on. It comes with two extra bars so that you can play in the keys of C, F and G which greatly expands what can be played on it. And the sound is absolutely beautiful. I bought this as a gift for my granddaughter's 4th birthday to encourage her budding musicianship, and I finally had to physically wrest it from my husband so that I could get it wrapped in time! He wouldn't stop playing it because the sound was so pure and beautiful. Great job, Hohner!

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She played it off and on for much of the day, picking out familiar tunes. She is a petite 6 year-old, and her brother, older by 5 years, plays several instruments (so there is some emulation involved.) This is a good fit for her small hands.