# Songs that can be played on an eight-note toy xylophone

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 20, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-can-be-played-on-an-eight-note-toy-xylophone/260747 "2004-08-20T17:37:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-can-be-played-on-an-eight-note-toy-xylophone/260747/61 "2017-01-23T18:51:33Z")

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Funny enough, the iconic film scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind has the young boy tapping out the famous five note alien greeting on his toy xylophone. He needs a two octave model (and has one) in order to do this. Just for fun…

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