: A playful nursery rhyme that is easy to memorize. Popular and Contemporary Hits

It was a xylophone, but not the brightly colored plastic toys he remembered from grade school. This was a masterpiece of mahogany and rosewood. The bars were thick and hand-polished, suspended over pristine brass resonators. It smelled of cedar and old varnish.

: Flying Fingers by George Hamilton Green (1920s) — the “Paganini of the xylophone.” His ragtime-influenced solos remain the gold standard for ragtime xylophone.

Barnaby bought it. He paid far too much for something that wouldn't plug into a wall or connect to the internet, but he was drawn to the silence of the wood. He took it home, set it up in his spare room, and picked up the mallets.

For percussionists wanting to build a xylophone songbook:

Before radio, xylophone songs were household entertainment. composed over 200 xylophone rags (e.g., The Whistler , Log Cabin Blues ). These feature: