Other forms: xylophones
A xylophone is a set of tuned wooden bars struck with small hammers. Play the xylophone, a toy xylophone, the xylophone part.
The bars are wood, which is what the name says and what separates it from the metal-barred glockenspiel and the deeper marimba. The tubes underneath are resonators tuned to the bar above, and removing them makes the note die almost at once.
1nounxylophoneTuned wooden bars struck with small hammers.
“The little boy played a tune on his toy xylophone, hitting each coloured bar with a stick.”
xylophone is an instrument.
Greek xylon, wood, plus phone, a sound. The same phone gives telephone and megaphone, and xylon appears in xylem, the wood-carrying tissue of a plant.
From xylo + phone.
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