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Definitions of xylophone in various dictionaries:
noun - a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators
A percussion instrument consisting of a mounted row of wooden bars graduated in length to sound a chromatic scale, played with two small mallets.
XYLOPHONE - The xylophone (from the Greek words xylon, "wood" + phn, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family tha...
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| Heard here, the Vietnamese version of this "wood voice" instrument is made of bamboo |
| In Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre", this instrument is made to sound like bones rattling |
| Greek for "wood sound", this instrument's name refers to its tuned wooden bars |
| A percussion instrument played with small mallets |
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The xylophone (from the Greek words xylon, "wood" + phn, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use. * The term xylophone may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba, balafon and even the semantron. However, in the orchestra, the term xylophone refers specifically to a chromatic instrument of somewhat higher pitch range and drier timbre than the marimba, and these two instruments should not be confused. * The term is also popularly used to refer to similar instruments of the lithophone and metallophone types. For example, the Pixiphone and many similar toys described by the makers as xylophones have bars of metal rather than of wood, and so are |