Rain on a Xylophone

Winter in Southern California doesn’t bring snow, it doesn’t bring extreme cold. It’s not frigidly cold like the East Coast is, and for most of my life I thought California didn’t really have different seasons. One thing Winter does bring, though, is rain.

As I try to sleep on my sister’s couch in San Diego, the night occasionally brings with it condensation temperatures, and thus bouts of rain. I wake up when this happens because the rain smacks against the exterior of a white air conditioner not-so-subtly stuck in a window. In the relative quiet of the night, it sounds like a deafening drum, one that I must will myself to ignore in order to get decent quality shut-eye.

I think about ways to shut the noise up: maybe put a towel on the outside of it where the rain hits? Maybe bubble wrap? Where would I get bubble wrap? And I realize: if the rain can smack against an air conditioner that loudly, what would it do to a xylophone? Wouldn’t it be incredible if you could hear a true symphony of rain? Maybe a set of xylophones?

Unfortunately I do not own a xylophone, but perhaps one day…

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