xylophone
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At St. Anne School in Santa Monica, I watched Cummins harness the squirmy energy of second-graders wielding xylophone mallets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
He holds small mallets in his “hands” to play a kind of xylophone called a marimba.
From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 1, 2024
The article paints a scene of company employees striking a metal xylophone and applauding as they jubilantly gaslight their customers.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2023
The way I want to hear the xylophone more.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2022
Playing a steady beat on the xylophone or other percussion instrument.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Otherwise, as a famous Brit once sang backed by sinuous xylophones, “Baby, baby, baby, you’re out of time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
I wish it sounded like tinkling bells and xylophones.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
These instruments tend to be bells, gongs, types of xylophones and other kinds of pitched percussion instruments.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024
Six school employees converge in the elementary school music room, where tambourines and xylophones hang from the wall.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
Thus the instrumentarium was born—the complete set of which includes bass bars, bass, alto/tenor, and soprano metallophones, xylophones and alto and soprano glockenspiels.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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