The Beginning Stages

Here are some examples of what I wanted to mimick with my project. However on a much smaller scale because of cost constraints.

I reall hit the ground running with this concept I did not want to work with any other instruments. My real problem here was the simplicity of the idea. I had to make it more complex than just a six key xylophone. Thanks to Trevor Peerman of the music department I was able to get my hands on a glockenspiel and get his insight on materials. He said that using a wood like pine or oak to get better resonance and rope under the keys to get more reverberation.