{"id":1424,"date":"2022-12-27T07:37:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T07:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/?page_id=1424"},"modified":"2022-12-27T07:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T07:37:41","slug":"kmart-anko-xylo-piano-%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/kmart-anko-xylo-piano-%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb\/","title":{"rendered":"Kmart ANKO Xylo Piano \ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pity the poor child who is gifted this instrument by Santa, tests a few happy notes and is then demanded to play <em>Twinkle Twinkle Little Star<\/em> for their expectant parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Xylo.jpg?resize=638%2C474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1425\" width=\"638\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Xylo.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Xylo.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Xylo.jpg?resize=768%2C571&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Xylo.jpg?resize=640%2C476&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Xylo.jpg?resize=400%2C297&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a fine instrument, a pleasure to touch and behold with a sweet metallic <em>ting<\/em> on each and every note. But it&#8217;s been tuned to play vaguely <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.readex.com\/blog\/hoochie-coochie-lure-forbidden-belly-dance-victorian-america\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.readex.com\/blog\/hoochie-coochie-lure-forbidden-belly-dance-victorian-america\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;oriental&#8217; hootchie-cootchie<\/a>. You know, snake charmer, dancing in veils, belly button &#8211; yeah that one. Run up the notes from &#8216;1&#8217; to &#8216;i&#8217; &#8211; yes it looks like an info symbol &#8211; why? &#8211; and you might think you&#8217;re entertaining Sinbad the Sailor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The metal bars are played from behind by tapping the keys. Very neat and tidy BUT if you look underneath you&#8217;ll discover little plastic xylophone sticks. Thin, not that resilient, ready for a child to eat. Hmmm, stick with the keys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So long as you are happy to be divorced from the entire play book of European children&#8217;s music you will enjoy it greatly &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/kmart-anko-toy-piano-%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more proof<\/a> that KMart is snapping at the heels of the big names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pity the poor child who is gifted this instrument by Santa, tests a few happy notes and is then demanded to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for their expectant parents. It is a fine instrument, a pleasure to touch and behold with a sweet metallic ting on each and every note. But it&#8217;s been tuned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1424","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-toy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}