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(More customer reviews)After taking my 8 month old to a friends house where he loved their kids xylophone and especially the full sized piano we got this toy for our son.
Yes the strings are short and a little one doesn't know how to hold the mallet handles on their own, but I can position the mallets in his hands properly and he does just fine. They are just long enough to be able to strike all the surface of each bar with the end just fine.
It is very sturdy. My 8mo old likes to bang on it pretty hard and so far we've had no problems with it coming apart.
My big gripe with it, though, is that two of the bars are clearly out of tune (the 3rd and 8th from the lowest pitch). It looks like they just cut the bars using an evenly increasing size rather than properly sizing them to match a major diatonic scale. I know this probably isn't a big deal, but I'm really sensitive to things being in tune, and besides do you want your developing kid to get used to a musical scale that's out of tune?
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Little Tikes Jungle Jamboree Tiger Piano and XylophoneJungle JamboreeTM Tunes the Tiger Tunes the tiger is so talented, he can play happy melodies on his piano, and cool tunes on his 8-note xylophone - he's 2 instruments in 1! Colorful strikers store under Tunes' paws for safekeeping, and handy cords keep them from getting lost. Includes music sheets for 4 fun nursery songs that sit in a special holder. Ages over 1-1/2 years & up.
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