xylophone
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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
They would weave through the cemetery with their marimbas — a percussion instrument with a warm sound, similar to a xylophone — between the elevated tombs, playing traditional Latin music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
Bingo finds a xylophone in a toy box, one with the make-believe ability to freeze people in place.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
Rachel threw a xylophone, but the demon just swatted that away, too.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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
First, she went through the submissions to make sure they were playable by recorders and xylophones, which many schools use in elementary music classes.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2021
It sounded like a hundred xylophones inside a stone tomb.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
Vocabulary lists containing xylophone
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