xylophone

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English - Turkish
ksilofon

Ksilofon çalmayı öğrenmek ne kadar sürer? - How long does it take to learn to play the xylophone?

Tom Mary'den daha iyi ksilofon çalar. - Tom plays the xylophone better than Mary does.

(isim) ksilofon
i., müz. ksilofon
ksilefon
English - English
a musical instrument made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like hammer

All I know how to play on my xylophone is Mary Had a Little Lamb. Would you like to hear it?.

An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood
Small toy musical instrument often given as gifts to children who show their appreciation by playing the stupid thing constantly, over and over, all day long! See also "DRUMS"
{i} musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of wooden bars which are sounded by striking with small hammers
a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
Keyboard instrument used in the 'Pit', or stationary percussion section
Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle
A xylophone is a musical instrument which consists of a row of wooden bars of different lengths. You play the xylophone by hitting the bars with special hammers. Percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned wooden bars that are struck with mallets. Primitive xylophones may consist of logs of graded length laid across two supporting logs; a pit may be dug underneath to serve as a resonator. The xylophone has long been one of the principal instruments of African music; it is also important in the Indonesian gamelan. The marimba is a Latin American xylophone. In the modern orchestral xylophone, the bars are laid out on a stand in keyboard arrangement, with vertical resonating tubes suspended under each bar. See also glockenspiel; vibraphone
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
xylo

Related Terms

xylophones
plural of xylophone
xylophone

    Hyphenation

    xy·lo·phone

    Turkish pronunciation

    zaylıfōn

    Pronunciation

    /ˈzīləˌfōn/ /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/

    Etymology

    [ 'zI-l&-"fOn also 'z ] (noun.) 1866. From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”) .
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