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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK |
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XYLOPHONE (Fr. xylophone; Ger. Xylophon, Strohfiedel or Holzharmonika; Ital. armonica de legno) , a small instrument of percussion, of definite sonorousness, used in the orchestra to mark the rhythm
series of little wooden staves in the form of a half cylinder and graduated in size. The staves, each of which represents a semitone,est on two, three or four wooden bars, covered with straw and converging to form an acute angle
compass of two or three octaves. The quality of tone
harmonica
glockenspiel
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