After a brief crit with Rod, it seems like the piece is lacking. I have been given a few criticisms:

1. The piece looks to be too thrown together
2. The nails are all different
3. There is difficulty placing the object as a punk rebellious type piece or if it is supposed to look authentic
4. The use of material is a little off with particle board at the base however the base of the xylophone I have acquired from Mr. Pittman also uses particle board so i don’t really see where I went wrong there. But perhaps I can look into some kind of laminate to make it look more official.

I have replaced the nails in the piece so that they are all the same. For the purposes of the structure I have left it the same, I will perhaps attempt to flip the piece and use the other side so that it doesn’t look as rough and re-hammer the nails. But as of right now I like the piece the way it is and the music students seemed to enjoy playing it. Its structurally sound and in my opinion looks like a xylophone and is as clean and pristine as possible with some dripping stain but hopefully Ill be able to touch that up before the final deadline. But for financial purposes im not quite sure what more to add. Ill keep thinking though I feel as though I am almost there because I want it to look as authentic as possible. The rebelliousness of the piece is supposed to be in the implied action of smacking your head against it, here is this clean piece and your hitting your head against it, that is the irony im searching for hopefully it will come across after some tweaks because I have put a lot of time into it.