The Pixiphone was a range of toy glockenspiels (although they were inaccurately labelled as xylophones on their packaging).

The larger Pixiphones had a 'raiser-bar' which could be used to end a note abruptly, rather than letting the sound fade naturally.

Although marketed as a children's toy, the Pixiphone could be tuned pitch-perfect and was very robust, resulting in many children using them at British schools for music instruction,[1] and occasional use on professional recordings by established musicians (see "recordings" below).

Ben Christophers also used one on two Marianne Faithfull songs, "Late Victorian Holocaust" and "Deep Water" on her Give My Love to London album,[3] although again it is misspelled pixiephone in the booklet.

Britpop/Shoegazer band LUSH used a Pixiphone in the introduction to “Light from a Dead Star from the 1994 Album Split.