Lumiappaday #218: Toy Xylophone demoed on the Nokia Lumia 900
Toy Xylophone is a children’s app that simulates, well, a toy xylophone. You’ve got a multicoloured one and a wooden one, both can take multitouch input of up to four points (though fitting four fingers at a time, even on the 4.3″ Lumia 900 is a task).
There’s a mode to let the xylophone play a song on its own. You can mute it so you can tap yourself and make the sound. You can change the tempo of the song (making it slower helps if you want to learn it).
Ideally, it would make a proper learn function whereby it waits for you to get the right keys first before going to the next one (there are similar apps that do this).
#218) Toy XylophoneÂ
Price:  Free or £0.79
Link:Â http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/f543b62b-d541-e011-854c-00237de2db9e
Link (paid):Â http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/2b3c1de5-9940-e011-854c-00237de2db9e
Developer Blurb:
Toy xylophone is not only a fun instrument for kids and adults to play, but also a simple learning tool to learn how to play more than 90 children and folk songs from all over the world!
Latest Updates v1.5:
– Support Windows Phone 7.5 Mango fast application switching
– 6 more Christmas songs added for the coming holiday season!
– Minor code adjustment for improving multi-touch response
Features:
– Multi-touch support. You can play it like a real instrument.
– 90 children and folk sample songs from all over the world.
– Two beautifully designed music keyboards, rainbow and wood styles, for you to choose from.
– Tempo adjustment during song playing, so you can easily learn how to play the song.
– Pause and mute function during song playing. You can easily follow the blink notes and play the full song!
If you like Toy Xylophone, please leave us a nice rating to help us create more great apps, and don’t forget to check out our other apps!
Rating:
Design: 8
Usability: 9
Performance: 8Â
Price: 10
Category: Applications, Lumiappaday, Nokia, Windows Phone
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