STEP-A-PHONE By Jake H. My instrument is called the Step-A-Phone. I got the idea from snooping around my basement. In making my instrument I used wood, curtain rods, and the metal rod you put on top of curtains. I obtained the materials in my basement, and I used a saw, nails, and a hammer. First I cut the wood and metal into different lengths. Then I used the hammer to nail the boards to the metal. To decorate I spray-painted the wood red. I have a percussion instrument that I bang on to make sound. There are three different bars on my xylophone that play three different pitches. There are different tones that sound like metal banging together. The sound can get pretty loud. My dad helped me by cutting some of the metal. The biggest problem was probably figuring out what types of nails to use.