hell yeah I have a kalimba and a long kirby u are welcome to try out anytime brother. also fun fact about handbells you can play them so wrong your handbells teacher tries to get you expelled (speaking from experience)
so delighted was i to read your missive on toy instrument informations! wow! a real treat! and also! a public shaming has occurred to call such as purple pianosaurus (which comes in many colors! ((neon lime green, razor bright magenta, semi-solemn pastel blue, etc.)) and! is of 1977 era) a barney piano. an era in which babies had no access to even seeing the elusive pianosaurus in stores. and what a shame for them for this!
also! i regret to tattle on good information on such public forum regarding falsehoods and slanders with repetition, however kalimba is no toy, it is greatly historied and beloved african instrument, traditionally made with the body of a gourd. an absolute icon of early sound-makers making gorgeous sounds, some for sacredly communing with ancestors.
to answer your question about xylophone, the casual triangle of it is a fact of function for plink plonk. the smaller the plank, the higher the plink. should every plank remain the same size, you would only plonk the one same note for ever and ever amen.
not to be rude as well and to throw salt in a circle around this edition of your writing to sort of either protect you from error or to just cleanse us all of the image of toy guitars because aren't regular guitars just sort of bad enough? (also some toy guitars do have sound holes and strings for making full sound worlds, not that anyone, particularly and most especially me, should know this from personal experience) but you missed out on quite a few many toy instruments. please allow me to demonstrate:
toy harp
toy banjo
toy BAG PIPES (oh, how i yearn!)
toy organ
toy record player for which you 3d print your own toy records
toy zither
toy glockenspiel
toy marching glockenspiel (vertical in nature)
toy accordion
melodica
keymonica
toy chimes
music box (some even with paper you can punch your own holes in to make your own music to roll through your music box)
toy steel pan drum
and even this is not even at all
close to a comprehensive list
and if you really wanted to destroy the concept of what gets to be a toy or what gets to be an instrument, then truly any toy can be an instrument and any instrument can be a toy and that is lovely and wonderful.*
*i know this slightly contradicts my having explicitly told you kalimba is not a toy but it feels important to note it is not its foremost cultural designation prior to deconstructing all the rules of what we call what and why.
yours, a raspa raspa-ing and a devout lover of toy instruments and also of you,
hell yeah I have a kalimba and a long kirby u are welcome to try out anytime brother. also fun fact about handbells you can play them so wrong your handbells teacher tries to get you expelled (speaking from experience)
dear ryland duncan of good information,
so delighted was i to read your missive on toy instrument informations! wow! a real treat! and also! a public shaming has occurred to call such as purple pianosaurus (which comes in many colors! ((neon lime green, razor bright magenta, semi-solemn pastel blue, etc.)) and! is of 1977 era) a barney piano. an era in which babies had no access to even seeing the elusive pianosaurus in stores. and what a shame for them for this!
also! i regret to tattle on good information on such public forum regarding falsehoods and slanders with repetition, however kalimba is no toy, it is greatly historied and beloved african instrument, traditionally made with the body of a gourd. an absolute icon of early sound-makers making gorgeous sounds, some for sacredly communing with ancestors.
to answer your question about xylophone, the casual triangle of it is a fact of function for plink plonk. the smaller the plank, the higher the plink. should every plank remain the same size, you would only plonk the one same note for ever and ever amen.
not to be rude as well and to throw salt in a circle around this edition of your writing to sort of either protect you from error or to just cleanse us all of the image of toy guitars because aren't regular guitars just sort of bad enough? (also some toy guitars do have sound holes and strings for making full sound worlds, not that anyone, particularly and most especially me, should know this from personal experience) but you missed out on quite a few many toy instruments. please allow me to demonstrate:
toy harp
toy banjo
toy BAG PIPES (oh, how i yearn!)
toy organ
toy record player for which you 3d print your own toy records
toy zither
toy glockenspiel
toy marching glockenspiel (vertical in nature)
toy accordion
melodica
keymonica
toy chimes
music box (some even with paper you can punch your own holes in to make your own music to roll through your music box)
toy steel pan drum
and even this is not even at all
close to a comprehensive list
and if you really wanted to destroy the concept of what gets to be a toy or what gets to be an instrument, then truly any toy can be an instrument and any instrument can be a toy and that is lovely and wonderful.*
*i know this slightly contradicts my having explicitly told you kalimba is not a toy but it feels important to note it is not its foremost cultural designation prior to deconstructing all the rules of what we call what and why.
yours, a raspa raspa-ing and a devout lover of toy instruments and also of you,
alexa dexa <333