It has long pieces of wood that hang on strings that you hit. When you hit the wood it makes a noise, and each piece of wood is a different note. I can’t remember what it’s called.
chime?
Noise?
Perhaps you mean sound…
Marimba fits your description:
Yes, I think it might’ve been marimba. I saw it on television for a couple seconds and knew I should’ve know what it was called…but drew a blank.
P.S., Is there really a difference between ‘noise’ and ‘sound’? If so, what’s the difference? I know the difference between ‘noise’ and ‘music’, but not between ‘noise’ and ‘sound’ as I used it.
- sound is a physical description of that thing that comes to your ears.
- noise is noise when your brain does not like number 1.
There are other instruments similar to Marimba but in different sizes and that kind of stuff. They have different names as well. Isn’t there something called Xylophone as well? I know there are some other names too, but can’t remeber them right now.
I don’t make that distinction (or understand it).
- Plant
- Weed
All weeds are plants, not all plants are weeds.
Denny
sound is neutral. like matter, or gravity. A physical entity.
Noise is subjectiv. If you dislike the sound, it is noise.
Stop picking.
BoneQuint offered us the standard usages for the word “noise”. One needs to recognise AND make distinctions in the English language, as it is a language of nuances. To ignore (presuming knowledge of) such distinctions reduces the language to one of mere grey utility and no better. If you want to write poetry in English, Cran, you need to work with the weights and measures, the shades and textures of its vocabulary. That being said, I think simple is best.
Many concepts have numerous synonyms but their meanings are all slightly different, and these meanings and usages meld into other areas. Example: If you were to touch something with your finger and write about it, you could use: touch, contact, poke, jab, feel, sense, palpate (yuck), and so on. A thesaurus is a good help in these matters.
What if you don’t like gravity? 
Then you write humorously. But you know that already. 
Then you’d be anti-gravity.
Quite.
I’d suggest that a noise is something jarring and abrupt, like a saucepan falling on a tiled floor, while a sound might be continuous, like the humming of a fridge, but that’s just my distinction.
Example 1: Cranberry drops a bag of spanners on a metal grating.
The Evil One: What’s that noise?
Example 2: Cranberry, grinning, winds the handle of a claxon.
The Cruel One: What an unpleasant sound. Please desist.
Example 3: Cranberry and the Seedy One listen to the wind in the trees.
Seedy: Ah a gentle susurrus. When I hear it, I think of the souls of drowned sailors crying in the deep.
Cran: Stop it, you’re scaring me with your pompous poetic pontifications.
I think you’re just being snarky, MarMil
what in the heck is a bag of spanners anyway?
oop, sorry, I forgot you left-of-Atlantic types have different words for things! A spanner is a wrench. A bag of spanners is a bag of wrenches.
A person lacking in facial charm may be said to have a face like:
a bag of spanners
a bulldog chewing a wasp
a slapped arse
the south end of a northbound bus
a wet Wednesday in Wolverhampton
…and many many more
why would anyone have a bag of wrenches anyway?? 
I love Englishisms…we don’t have great expressions like that over here. Look at “snarky”. What a word that is! There is no good American equivalent, which is why I love to say it 
A plumber?
Whoa, there, Your Izzness. I picked up “snarky” many years ago and it sure wan’t from Eastenders. I always thought it was a Yankologism. Then again, whenever I’ve used it, I’m always asked to define it. Which I can’t. I mean, it’s self-evident, right? sigh I know I got it out of print somewhere…