Which type of richly hued wood is by far the most common wood used for Marimba and Xylophone keys?
Xylophone a chromatic instrument of somewhat higher pitch range and drier timbre than the marimba, and these two instruments should not be confused. The term is also popularly used to refer to similar instruments of the lithophone and metallophone types. For example, the Pixiphone and many similar toys described by the makers as xylophones have bars of metal rather than of wood, and so are in organology regarded as glockenspiels rather than as xylophones. The bars of metal sound more high-pitched than the wooden ones. The modern western xylophone has bars of rosewood, padauk, or various synthetic materials such as fiberglass
Glass marimba necessary thickness of 1/4" for the most common glass marimba tunings, though thinner and thicker keys can be used for low and high tunings. Tuning is accomplished most commonly by removing glass from the end of the key which causes the note to go up. Removing glass from the bottom of the key will cause the note to go down but is only feasible if one is using opaque glass for the keys. The keys are best supported on a pad of open cell foam mounted to a thin piece of wood and encased in cloth. The keys are attached