- Enjoy creating some fun tunes with the Vilac Xylophone
- The colourful Xylophone features 12 keys for musical variety
- The colourful keys are sat on a durable wooden base for stability
- The xylophone is manufactured to a very high standard and would make a wonderful gift
- The carefully designed xylophone is made of sustainable wood and non toxic lacquer
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Product Specifications
Model Number8307
Number of Puzzle Pieces1
Assembly RequiredNo
Batteries Required?No
Material Composition75% Wood,25% Metal
Colormulticoloured
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Product Description
Enjoy creating some fun musical tunes with the Vilac Xylophone. The colourful Xylophone features 12 keys for musical variety and is easily portable for play anywhere!. The Xylophone is manufactured to a very high standard and would make a wonderful gift. Vilac have been manufacturing wooden toys for over 90 years and have become one of the oldest toymakers in Europe. Originally founded by Narcisse Villet in 1911 as a wood turning workshop in Jura, France. Vilac specialise finely lacquered wooden toys. Thus named - Vilac ("Vi" from Villet and "lac" from lacquer). The durable wood turning technique has continued to the present day contributing to the widely held attraction of Vilac toys.
Product Description
12 notes on this colourful wooden metallophone with metal keys. 2 wooden sticks to beat out a tinkly tune. The xylophone comes in its own brightly coloured box.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I spent ages trying to find a xylophone for my two year old nephew and this was easily the best product I could find. The xylophone looks well made and sturdy even if the French toy company had got this toy manufactured in China. It does seem a durable and "old-fashioned" kind of product and the tone of the notes is pleasing. The notes are well tempered and therefore play the tones intended when sruck with the two, wooden batons.
However, the "bright coloured box" transpires to be a normal cardboard box with photos on it with the xylophone being wrapped in polythene on the inside. This was a disappointment although the instrument now has a Grandma-made material case to compensate. I would suggest that this toy will need a degree of protection and the cardboard box won't last five minutes. The other disappointment was that although the xylophone has 12 keys, the notes are diatonic and not chromatic. I.e. There are no sharps or flats. This is a major incumbrance to music making and practically limits the player to performing everything in the key of C major with the option of a few penta-tonic scales. For me, this compromises this product's educational value but lengthy searching on the internet and telephoning toy shops proved that this is easily the best toy xylophone available at Christmas 2010.
In summary, this is a very nicely built toy, looks durable and is particularly colourful. The fact that the keys actually play the correct note is an advantage over nearly all the other toy xylophones and the number of customer reviews I read where this wasn't the case proved that nearly all of the other models / versions available were not worth buying. In some cases, the adjacent keys played the same note when struck!! Anyone looking for a chromatic xylophone will have to invest in a proper instrument, at which point the price seems to leap up to the £100's. So whilst this instrument is not perfect, it is definately the best toy xylophone on the market. Most young children won't notice the missing 5 notes and this will generally only be noticeable to musicians - until you try to play a melody with more than 1/3 of the possible notes not being available!!
However, the "bright coloured box" transpires to be a normal cardboard box with photos on it with the xylophone being wrapped in polythene on the inside. This was a disappointment although the instrument now has a Grandma-made material case to compensate. I would suggest that this toy will need a degree of protection and the cardboard box won't last five minutes. The other disappointment was that although the xylophone has 12 keys, the notes are diatonic and not chromatic. I.e. There are no sharps or flats. This is a major incumbrance to music making and practically limits the player to performing everything in the key of C major with the option of a few penta-tonic scales. For me, this compromises this product's educational value but lengthy searching on the internet and telephoning toy shops proved that this is easily the best toy xylophone available at Christmas 2010.
In summary, this is a very nicely built toy, looks durable and is particularly colourful. The fact that the keys actually play the correct note is an advantage over nearly all the other toy xylophones and the number of customer reviews I read where this wasn't the case proved that nearly all of the other models / versions available were not worth buying. In some cases, the adjacent keys played the same note when struck!! Anyone looking for a chromatic xylophone will have to invest in a proper instrument, at which point the price seems to leap up to the £100's. So whilst this instrument is not perfect, it is definately the best toy xylophone on the market. Most young children won't notice the missing 5 notes and this will generally only be noticeable to musicians - until you try to play a melody with more than 1/3 of the possible notes not being available!!
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Great for children and sound not too noisy for adults; head flew off one stick at first use but easily reattached, so check before you give to avoid disappointmentVilac Xylophone
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was a gift for my gorgeous neice, she is loving it! seems to play on it alot and seems durable... so far.
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