xylophone in English

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.
It is a simple ballad with a choirboy singing a melody over a xylophone and soft string orchestral backing.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "xylophone" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "xylophone", or refer to the context using the word "xylophone" in the English Dictionary.

1. This is a xylophone.

2. 'Xylophone' begins with X / 'X'.

3. I play the xylophone, fun, fun.

4. Listen to xylophone music from 19

5. Ribs like a xylophone, they said.

6. They will never recede like a xylophone.

7. Balafon definition is - a West African xylophone with gourd resonators.

8. The "Balafon" is a basic xylophone with gourd resonators

9. Ribs like a xylophone, they said. Play us a tune, Hoomey.

10. Mysterious, gentle and dreamy sphere sounds between Ambient and Ethno with a dominant xylophone.

11. Then the xylophone misbehaved again and they had to abandon the next song entirely.

12. In school, I teach students to play jazz drums, kettledrums, xylophone and so on.

13. I never played it before but I knew it had the same keyboards as the xylophone.

14. There's a xylophone on the title track, and whoops and cheers are littered throughout the album.

15. Lorne gets up and finds his xylophone broken, " oh, damn. " He curses, which arouses a guffaw.

16. Ethereal Ambient / Electro with crystal clear bells and xylophone sounds, synthetic basses and Ethno percussions.

17. Instruments including xylophone and bass guitar were later brought, along with a six-member gospel choir.

18. The length of the bars of the xylophone determines the different notes of the scale. Sentencedict.com

19. It can only be a matter of time before some one buys Ronan's Fisher Price xylophone.

20. It was in Hite's ensemble that Hampton made his first recording on the vibraharp, an amplified xylophone.

21. Thanks to Salif Kone’s balafon, or African xylophone, NAEREMA allows you to discover an earthy, ancestral African sound.

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23. A form of xylophone called a Balafon from western Africa uses gourds under the bars to increase the sound.

24. Janean Wjvold playing West African Balaphon (a wooden type of xylophone) with a djembe drummer and musician on percussion

25. The hammering and pounding made a terrific noise, as if the old men were tuning dementedly a giant xylophone.

26. The world’s oldest Balafon, a musical instrument similar to xylophone known as the “Sosso-Bala”, has been in existence since the 13th Century

27. …and musical instruments, including the Balafon (much like a xylophone but constructed of animal horns, skins, and wood), are all that remain of older handiwork

28. Castanets Such instruments as piano, drums, cymbals, xylophone, marimba, orchestra bells, chimes, Castanets, woodblock, and even tuned sleigh bells could be played from the organ keyboards.

29. The Balafon or (Balafong, Balaphone) is a wooden xylophone (percussion idiophone) from West Africa and is thought to have originated from the 1300s under the Sosso King

30. The Balafon (also spelled balaphone) is an African xylophone which is found in many parts of Africa, tuned to pentatonic or heptatonic scales depending on its region of origin

31. Balafon The balafon (also spelled Balaphone) is an African xylophone which is found in many parts of Africa, tuned to pentatonic or heptatonic scales depending on its region of origin

32. Phong, a four-year-old male elephant, plays a xylophone in an 11-piece pachyderm orchestra conducted by US conservationist Richard Lair (R) at Thailand's Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang.

33. The Balafon is a West African xylophone that an artisan carefully crafts from particular species of dried wood, 18-21 bars of which are attached to a frame above specific resonating gourds, and strike with special gum-rubber mallets.

34. ‘Later, he played Balafon (an indigenous wooden xylophone), but guitar was a rare instrument and in high demand, so he continued to be drawn to it.’ ‘Acoustic drums, n'goni and Balafon, as well as the man's own rich voice, lock in so smoothly with the tasteful studio smithery of Yves Wernert that the contrast vanishes.’

35. Composed: 1936 Length: 27 minutes Orchestration: two complete string orchestras divided spatially by the percussion - timpani, bass drum, side drums, cymbals, tam-tam, xylophone, harp, piano two- and four-hands, and Celesta Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta occupies a special place among Bartók's compositions, not only for its fearlessly independent choice of instruments (two string