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• XYLOPHONE (Fr. xylophone; Ger. Xylophon, Strohfiedel or Holzharmonika; Ital. armonica de legno)

XYLOPHONE (Fr. xylophone; Ger. Xylophon, Strohfiedel or Holzharmonika; Ital. armonica de legno)  , a small See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument of percussion, of definite sonorousness, used in the See also:

• ORCHESTRA (Fr. Orchestre; Ger. Kapelle, Orchester; Ital. Orchestra)

orchestra to See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark the See also:

• RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

rhythm . The See also:

• XYLOPHONE (Fr. xylophone; Ger. Xylophon, Strohfiedel or Holzharmonika; Ital. armonica de legno)

xylophone consists of a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of little wooden staves in the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of a See also:

• HALF

half See also:

• CYLINDER (Gr. KvAwSpos, from KvXivaety, to roll)

cylinder and graduated in See also:

• SIZE

size . The staves, each of which represents a semitone,est on two, three or four wooden bars, covered with See also:

• STRAW

straw and converging to form an acute See also:

• ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle . They are so arranged that each stave is isolated . In some See also:

• MODELS

models the staves are grouped in two rows, comprising the naturals and the accidentals . The xylophone is played with two little wooden hammers, and has a See also:

• COMPASS (Fr. corn pas, ultimately from Lat. cum, with, and passus, step)

compass of two or three octaves . The quality of See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone is inferior to that of the See also:

• STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel See also:

• HARMONICA

harmonica or See also:

• GLOCKENSPIEL, or ORCHESTRAL BELLS (Fr. carillon; Ger. Glockenspiel, Stahlharmonika; Ital. carnpanelli; Med. Lat. tintinnabulum, cymbalum, bombulum)

glockenspiel . (K .