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How to make a paper roll xylophone

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Lullatone‘s music and visual aesthetics are bright, clean, and sincere, often playing on toy instruments and other analog sounds. Here, Shawn James Seymour of Lullatone explains How to make a paper roll xylophone in Japanese. No translation required.

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