1) Keyboard percussion 
The Pixiphone was a range of toy glockenspiels (although they were inaccurately labelled as xylophones on their packaging). The larger Pixiphones had a `raiser-bar` which could be used to end a note abruptly, rather than letting it fade naturally. Although marketed as a children`s toy, the Pixiphone could be tuned pitch-perfect and was very rob......