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xylophone

[zahy-luh-fohn] / ˈzaɪ ləˌfoʊn /
NOUN
percussion instrument consisting of a series of graduated wooden bars played with small mallets
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NOUN
instrument
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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

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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