The Xylophone a percussion instrument that has different bars that you hit with mallets
hit it with a hard wooden stick
The xylophone and the marimba are just two of several percussion musical instruments struck by mallets. A line of bells in an orchestra is also hit with a mallet. The term mallet to produce sound, is not like the heavy wooden or rubber malletused to drive tent pegs into the ground when camping.
While they are both percussion instruments, the piano has keys that you hit with your fingers attached to hammers which hit strings inside the piano, and the xylophone has different pitched metal or wooden strips that you strike with a mallet. They produce very different sounds and a piano has many more keys than most xylophones.
The keys
The Xylophone a percussion instrument that has different bars that you hit with mallets
hit it with a hard wooden stick
The xylophone and the marimba are just two of several percussion musical instruments struck by mallets. A line of bells in an orchestra is also hit with a mallet. The term mallet to produce sound, is not like the heavy wooden or rubber malletused to drive tent pegs into the ground when camping.
you hit the notes with the mallets
While they are both percussion instruments, the piano has keys that you hit with your fingers attached to hammers which hit strings inside the piano, and the xylophone has different pitched metal or wooden strips that you strike with a mallet. They produce very different sounds and a piano has many more keys than most xylophones.
The croquet arch is known as a hoop. The objects used to hit the balls in croquet are called mallets.
The keys
by how hard you hit it
The Marimba a sort of resonating Xylophone. the Vibraharp is simlar but uses metalllic plates.(which are struck by hand-held mallets) Thye Four-mallet style is the most common, they have a neat jazz sound . Rarely used in C&W, but definitely acoustic. They harmonize well with Steel Guitars and like the"steels, loend themselves well to tonal special effects of an ethereal, detached , or even science-fictional backdrop.l
Don't hit it as hard, or use a softer mallet.
There are different kinds of percussion instruments, and they have different tone colors. A snare drum makes a high-pitched, sudden, and fairly sharp sound when hit with a drumstick. The timpani are tuned instruments, and usually hit with soft mallets rather than drumsticks, so their sound is more "rounded" and mellower, as well as much lower in pitch. The orchestra bells are pitched instruments, with keys made of metal, that are usually hit with fairly hard mallets, so the sound is somewhat sharp and bright; the xylophone has similar keys, but they are made of wood, so the sound when they are hit is somewhat - well, woodier. It is not as bright or as sharp as hitting metal, and usually softer in volume. Pianos are also percussion instruments, and they can make quite a few different tone colors.
Hedgehogs were used as croquet balls in "Alice in Wonderland." The Queen of Hearts used flamingos as mallets to hit the hedgehogs through the croquet wickets.