The Xmas-o-lo-phone (no apologies)!

The Xmas-o-lo-phone

I’m going to set up a Christmas ‘xylophone’ between the trees. This will consist of a series of hollow (tuned) pipes hung length ways between the trees, suspended on rope or chord. The overall effect will look similar to a rope ladder slung sideways.

The idea is that rather than just playing a scale it will play Jingle Bells. So, the first few notes will be at the same pitch as with the tune:

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jin- (It is not until you get to note 8 that it rises in pitch!)

So, each rung is a note of the tune, as you run along blowing or tapping them they play the tune, they will also be spaced so that the rhythm works properly e.g. the third note has twice as big a gap to the next ‘rung’ compared to the previous note.

It would be good to set it up in a horseshoe (probably more realistically a V) shape between the trees so that is can be run around in a loop.

The trick is working it out so that it is dead easy to play.

	Tune		Pitch				Duration
Step	Pitch	Rhythm	Degree of scale	Relative pipe length	Pipe length in (mm)	Cut from pipe batch	Relative distance to next note	Distance to next note (cm)
1	e	Crotchet	3	0.789889	50.0	3	2	50
2	e	Crotchet	3	0.789889	50.0	3	2	50
3	e	Minim	3	0.789889	50.0	3	4	100
4	e	Crotchet	3	0.789889	50.0	3	2	50
5	e	Crotchet	3	0.789889	50.0	3	2	50
6	e	Minim	3	0.789889	50.0	3	4	100
7	e	Crotchet	3	0.789889	50.0	3	2	50
8	g	Crotchet	5	0.666667	42.2	4	2	50
9	c	Dotted Crotchet	1	1	63.3	4	3	75
10	d	Quaver	2	0.888889	56.3	2	1	25
11	e	Semibreve	3	0.789889	50.0	3	8	200
12	f	Crotchet	4	0.750188	47.5	1	2	50
13	f	Crotchet	4	0.750188	47.5	1	2	50
14	f	Dotted Crotchet	4	0.750188	47.5	1	3	75
15	f	Quaver	4	0.750188	47.5	1	1	25
16	f	Crotchet	4	0.750188	47.5	1	2	50
17	e	Crotchet	3	0.789889	50.0	3	2	50
18	e	Crotchet	3	0.789889	50.0	3	2	50
19	e	Quaver	3	0.789889	50.0	3	1	25
20	e	Quaver	3	0.789889	50.0	3	1	25
21	e	Crotchet	3	0.789889	50.0	3	2	50
22	d	Crotchet	2	0.888889	56.3	2	2	50
23	d	Crotchet	2	0.888889	56.3	2	2	50
24	e	Crotchet	3	0.789889	50.0	3	2	50
25	d	Minim	2	0.888889	56.3	2	4	100
26	g	Minim	5	0.666667	42.2	4	4	100
					1310.2	6*3m pipes		1600