Want to play the xylophone but don’t want to learn how? [Rachad]’s automatic xylophone might be just the ticket. It uses homemade solenoids to play tunes under computer control. Think of it as a ...

Although an accomplished, classically trained musician, Bloomington’s Julia LeBeau was best known as the maestro of the tin can xylophone. Born in 1903 in Bloomington, the story goes that a three-year ...