xylophone
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He holds small mallets in his “hands” to play a kind of xylophone called a marimba.
From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 1, 2024
The article paints a scene of company employees striking a metal xylophone and applauding as they jubilantly gaslight their customers.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2023
The two met at White Columns, an alternative art space where Basquiat was performing that night in a hula skirt while playing the xylophone, Tabboo! says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
They squat on the surface with embossing hammers, swiftly stamping the top of each cube, like xylophone players performing in a concert.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023
Below are some basic accompaniment patterns on the xylophone or metallophone that students should be able to perform easily.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
I wish it sounded like tinkling bells and xylophones.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
These instruments tend to be bells, gongs, types of xylophones and other kinds of pitched percussion instruments.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024
To some observers, the two businesses may seem to be anachronisms — one offering plastic yodeling pickles and xylophones, the other borscht and kielbasa — and out of step with the times.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2020
The new regulations also required permits for products made from the wood, including guitars, violins, bagpipes and xylophones.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 12, 2018
It sounded like a hundred xylophones inside a stone tomb.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
Vocabulary lists containing xylophone
Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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