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1. (n.) xylophone
a musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of wooden bars, usu. sounded by striking with small wooden hammers.
Etymology: (1865–70)
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1. (noun) marimba, xylophone
a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
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1. (noun) xylophone
a percussion instrument with a row of wooden bars that produce different notes
to play the xylophone
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1. (noun) xylophone
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. (noun) xylophone
an instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood
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Sense: a musical instrument consisting of wooden or metal slats of various lengths, which produce different notes when struck by wooden hammers.
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 Afrikaans: xilofoon |
 Arabic: زيلوفون: آلة موسيقيَّه |
 Bulgarian: ксилофон |
 Brazilian: xilofone |
 Czech: xylofon |
 German: das Xylophon |
 Danish: xylofon |
 Greek: ξυλόφωνο |
 Spanish: xilófono |
 Estonian: ksülofon |
 Farsi: زیلوفون |
 Finnish: ksylofoni |
 French: xylophone |
 Hebrew: (מוּזִיקָה) קְסִילוֹפוֹן |
 Hindi: काष्ठतरंग |
 Croatian: ksilofon |
 Hungarian: xilofon |
 Indonesian: silofon |
 Icelandic: tréspil, sílófónn |
 Italian: xilofono, silofono |
 Japanese: 木琴 |
 Korean: 실로폰 |
 Lithuanian: ksilofonas |
 Latvian: ksilofons |
 Malay: zilofon |
 Dutch: xylofoon |
 Norwegian: xylofon |
 Polish: ksylofon |
 Persian: زیلوفون |
 Pashto: زیلوفون |
 Portuguese: xilofone |
 Romanian: xilofon |
 Russian: ксилофон |
 Slovak: xylofón |
 Slovenian: ksilofon |
 Serbian: ksilofon |
 Swedish: xylofon |
 Thai: เครื่องดนตรีลักษณะคล้ายระ |
 Turkish: ksilafon, vurmalı çalgı |
 Taiwanese: 木琴，手敲琴 |
 Ukrainian: ксилофон |
 Urdu: چوبی سنتور |
 Vietnamese: đàn phiến gỗ |
 Chinese: 木琴 |
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