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Xy·lo·phone

/ˈzīləˌfōn/

noun
- 1. a musical instrument played by striking a row of wooden bars of graduated length with one or more small wooden or plastic mallets.
Word Origin mid 19th century: from xylo- ‘of wood’ + -phone.
Derivatives
- 1. xylophonic adjective
- 2. xylophonist noun
Scrabble Points: 24
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Musical instrument of the family of mallets
The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned wooden keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African an... Wikipedia
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