1957 Product Description. Since its introduction in 1957, Pull-A-Tune Xylophone has made music and delighted children all over the world. With eight rainbow colored bars and a mallet, today's Pull-A-Tune Xylophone makes beautiful melodies for a whole new generation of children to enjoy.

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Recommended for ages 1+ years.

Mattel Fisher-Price has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel since 1993.

The xylophone is a wooden percussion instrument with a range of four octaves, and can be used in a variety of musical genres. No one really knows the xylophone's origins. Although they are present in the traditional music of Melanesia, Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, and more, its birthplace and date remain a mystery.

The Xylophone is a Percussion instrument which belong to the idiophones and to the Definite pitch subfamily. It consists of a frame of wood pitched bars which rests on a metal stand which has wheels for ease transport. These bars are made of Rosewood, Japanese birch or synthetic materials.

A xylophone for example, can teach a child (and sometimes the parent as well, no doubt) about different tones and pitches of the instrument; stimulating their mind on a completely different level to an ordinary toy as they learn the different notes of each key.

When a performer strikes the bars with a mallet or a stick, the bars produce sounds. Each bar is tuned to produce a particular note. Different types of xylophone are used in many parts of the world. In their simplest form they consist of several wooden slabs set across two supports such as logs or an open pit.

A xylophone for example, can teach a child (and sometimes the parent as well, no doubt) about different tones and pitches of the instrument; stimulating their mind on a completely different level to an ordinary toy as they learn the different notes of each key.

The company was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1902 by Chester Garfield Fisher (1881-1965), originally called the "Scientific Materials Co.".

Fisher-Price made the first Little People of wood and lithographed paper; solid, single-colored wooden bodies followed. Later figures were made of hard plastic.

The xylophone is a percussion instrument that can play melodies. It consists of a set of wooden bars set across a frame. Each wooden bar produces a single note when struck. The musician uses small mallets to strike the bars.

Often confused with its cousin the marimba, the xylophone has thick, hardwood bars and elicits much sharper, shorter notes, so the two instruments are often used together for a more varied tone.

The xylophone is usually played so that the music sounds an octave higher than written. Because the sound is always very short the xylophone is often used for short solo tunes which are fast and dry. The marimba is a kind of xylophone which has a softer sound and more bars, especially low notes.

The xylophone is usually played so that the music sounds an octave higher than written. Because the sound is always very short the xylophone is often used for short solo tunes which are fast and dry. The marimba is a kind of xylophone which has a softer sound and more bars, especially low notes.

The xylophone can also help with a child's eye-hand coordination, impulse control, gross motor skills as well as reading skills if you use color-coded music to match the notes on the xylophone. I hope you find these list of instruments helpful in bringing some of the therapeutic benefits of music into your home.