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
Speak the password and a man in elaborate robes will play a xylophone, welcoming you into new worlds.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
I was so nervous, it felt like my heart was playing xylophone against my rib cage.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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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
Six school employees converge in the elementary school music room, where tambourines and xylophones hang from the wall.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
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
Thus the instrumentarium was born—the complete set of which includes bass bars, bass, alto/tenor, and soprano metallophones, xylophones and alto and soprano glockenspiels.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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