Sasuori 30 Note Xylophone Glockenspiel Wooden Frame Aluminum Bars Educational Percussion Musical Instrument Gift with Carrying Bag

This is a perfectly good xylophone/glockenspiel for early users and for those that just want to have picked out a tune at some point in their lives. It's an inexpensive musical tool for people learning to read music that sounds pleasant, although the metal tines will have a penetrating sound to them, which is something you might want to bear in mind. To get a similarly usable xylophone with wooden tines at the same price, you'd be looking at children's toys, with a smaller range of notes and not capable of being folded up and put away somewhere when necessary.It came in a small carrying bag, with a pair of mallets, and folds lengthwise into quite a small space, meaning it can be well hidden away when not being played.My wife uses it to learn tunes and gets very absorbed with the process of getting the tune right. She's tone deaf, bless her, and keen as mustard to make progress with music by whatever means she can. I play music a great deal and although her halting progress sounds frustrating, the xylophone/glockenspiel itself sounds fine. Quite a bright sound and, as I said earlier, penetrating.The tuning of the tines is, in the example we received, spot on.If you want a softer sound you'd probably have to go up in cost to something quite "serious", or to other drums that don't have the key arrangement that a glockenspiel has, following the standard key layout that you see on pianos and other keyboards. Something like a "tongue drum" might work in that case, but it'll be less easy to learn the positions of musical notes on something like that, and will generally cover just one octave of notes (13 notes C-to-C, for example) at most.This is quite a serious (and serious-looking) starter instrument for any budding percussionists in your household!

It was delivered the next day, produce is steady and my son is practicing on it and loves it.

Because of the wooden frame, it has to carried with care.

First of all i will be adding pics asap.Second, this does sound nice, all appears in tune and accurate.Right would i recommend this, 2 answers for this.Yes if you dont mind the finish and how the item arrives with no instructions for beginners, Poor quality hinges which i know will not last and wood is also very poor quality, but hey it comes with a padded case, On the subject of padded case, That is how mine arrived, No box just a see through thin plastic bag as protection.!!!All the keys on this are good quality and i suppose that is the main thing, They do sound lovely.BUT get some better mallets, The ones that come with this are rubbish.Right am i glad i got this, well yes and no! It sounds good, i thought the price was good until i saw the quality and then to rub it in even more i could have got another £20 off if i had waited another day! So nope wish i hadn't, Not sure if gonna keep it or not, Pics to follow...