But you can still play it here with simple hammering motions!Ī handbell produces only one pitch, so a tune must be played by an ensemble. Made from an oil drum, this instrument is unlike most drums because it plays specific notes. Use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk like mallets to strike up a vibrating tune! Metal tubes under metal keys give this percussion instrument its unique sound. All you need to do to produce its rich range of sound is make mallet motions! The marimba has dozens of wood bars that vibrate when hit with mallets. You'll play it here with hammering movements! The dulcimer's strings, stretched over a sounding board, produce bright notes when struck with small mallets. You'll only need to make piano-playing motions, fortunately! The harp is one of the oldest known instruments, and a concert harp has nearly 50 strings. You'll still play it like a piano, so hammer away! Harpsichords give a richer sound than pianos because their internal strings are plucked, not hammered. You'll still play it here like a piano: hammer away as if hitting keys! Inside a toy piano, hammers strike metal rods instead of strings, making tinny noises. How could the rich range of the piano ever be topped? The galaxy's greatest engineers tackled this challenge and created this perfect piano just for you! But you only need to hammer your hands up and down to produce a wide range of notes! All instruments have extra playing options, where additional button-presses or restricted movements have different effects on the sound.Įighty-eight keys make hammers strike separate strings inside a piano. The Wii Balance Board can also be utilized in playing the various drum kits, emulating the foot-operated pedals. Because of the varying techniques required to play different instruments, the instruments in Wii Music are divided into "groups" (trumpet, violin, percussion, piano, guitar) to which certain movements or button presses play single notes.įor example, instruments such as keyboards and percussion require the player to swing the controllers as if striking drums and some string instruments such as the violin and the guitar are played by moving the Wii Remote as if drawing a bow or strumming the strings, while the Nunchuk is held as if the gripping the instrument's neck and fingerboard. To play each of the instruments, the player mimics the required motions with the Wii Remote and the Nunchuk. Wii Music offers a selection of sixty-six playable instruments, including the violin, drum, etc., as well as unconventional instruments such as dog and cat sounds made by singers in a suit, singers, karate shouts, cheerleader cheers, and 8-bit sounds by using the NES horn. Some of the sixty-six instruments from Wii Music. Please excuse its informal appearance while it is being worked on. This page or section is under construction.