Look up: xylophone

1. Xylophone
   The xylophone is a percussion musical instrument.
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2. Xylophone
   A percussion instrument of wooden bars laid out in an incremental row. Normal xylophones have a range of three-and-a-half octaves. If you have any better suggestions as to what else we might put under 'X', then we welcome your emails, postcards, carrier pigeons, etc.
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3. xylophone
   a graduated series of hard wood bars played by hand-held hard beaters Category: General
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4. Xylophone
   Xy'lo·phone noun [ Xylo- + Greek fwnh` sound.] 1. (Mus.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on ...
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5. xylophone
   1. An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle. ... 2. An instrument to determine ...
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6. Xylophone
   • (n.) An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood. • (n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with ...
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7. xylophone
   (from Greek xylon and phon: `wood` and `sound`), percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated, tuned wooden bars supported at nodal ... [8 related articles]
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8. xylophone
   xylophone, xylophonic 1. A musical instrument consisting of a row of wooden bars of different lengths that are laid out like a keyboard and produce a tone when struck with a mallet. 2. A musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of flat wooden bars, played by striking with a small hammer or by rubbing with rosined gloves.
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9. Xylophone
   The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον — xylon, "wood" + φωνή —phonē, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden (not steel) bars struck by mallets. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case ...
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10. xylophone
    xylophone (zī'lufōn) [Gr.,=wood sound], musical instrument having graduated wooden slabs that are struck by the player with small, hard mallets. The slabs are usually arranged like a keyboard, and the range varies from two to four octaves. Since the 1920s the xylophone has been equip...
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11. xylophone
    Musical percussion instrument of African and Indonesian origin. It consists of a series of hardwood bars of varying lengths, each with its own distinct pitch, arranged in a similar way to a piano. Beneath each bar is a metal tube resonator that helps to enrich and sustain the sound. It is usually pl...
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12. Xylophone
    Percussion instrument consisting of a series of graduated wooden bars that are struck with mallets to produce sound. Xylophones originated in South East Asia, and later became very prominent in African music.
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13. Xylophone
    A percussion instrument set up in the form of a keyboard whose bars are made of wood. Played using mallets.
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