When I was little, one of my favorite toys was my Fisher Price Xylophone. I played those colorful keys up and down for hours, singing loud and learning my first octave.
When I got a little older, my brother made me a small, wooden xylophone which is still in my family home in Florida. It’s a beautiful reddish wood, fragile with a gorgeous tone.
Even later, I bought myself a full xylophone with accompanying sticks and a stand. I don’t play this as much as I should. Benjamin and I have talked about incorporating xylophone lines into The Dwindlers… just little sprinkles of sound, but so far, I haven’t taken the initiative. Perhaps this is why he gave me a glockenspiel for Christmas, as further encouragement, one more try, three’s a charm. It’s turquoise, and it twinkles, and I love it!
Indeed, it is my hope that very soon I will compose some melodies on both my glocken and my xylophone. Happy Tunes to come!
