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xylophone [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 equipped with tubular resonators and thus is essentially identical with the marimba. The latter, however, is deeper and larger, is often played by two or more players, and is struck with soft mallets.

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xylophone Tuned percussion instrument. It is made of hardwood bars arranged as in a piano keyboard and played with mallets. The modern xylophone normally has a range of four octaves, extending from middle C upwards.

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	-CPSC: CPSC, Playwell Toy announce recall of xylophone mallets. M2 Presswire; 10/19/1998; 700 words ; ...000 individually sold xylophones, 150,000 Little...rounded ends of the xylophone mallets are smaller...The metal bars on the xylophones are red, yellow...The individually sold xylophones have stickers on them...reads, "Music World Xylophone... Playwell...
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