xylophone
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At St. Anne School in Santa Monica, I watched Cummins harness the squirmy energy of second-graders wielding xylophone mallets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
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 way I want to hear the xylophone more.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2022
For example, a wood block corresponds to a hop, a xylophone glissando is a leap, a shaker means to shake.
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
Six school employees converge in the elementary school music room, where tambourines and xylophones hang from the wall.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
First, she went through the submissions to make sure they were playable by recorders and xylophones, which many schools use in elementary music classes.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2021
By the years end the Firemen had raked the autumn leaves and white xylophones away, and it was no more fun.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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