page_title: Pixiphone
section_title: Similar instruments
hierarchical_section_title: Pixiphone / Similar instruments
caption_attribution_description: English: Sooty pixie Xylophonephone
context_page_description: The Pixiphone was a range of toy glockenspiels. The larger Pixiphones had a 'raiser-bar' which could be used to end a note abruptly, rather than letting the sound fade naturally. Although marketed as a children's toy, the Pixiphone could be tuned pitch-perfect and was very robust, resulting in many children using them at British schools.
context_section_description: A similar but unrelated instrument was sold as the Sooty Pixie Xylophone (Pixie with an e) in the same period.
caption: Sooty Xylophones sold in the 1950s and 1960s
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