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

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

instrument

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

of percussion, of definite sonorousness, used in the orchestra to mark the

rhythm

RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

. The xylophone consists of a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

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

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form,
angus
- ANGUS, EARLS OF
, 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

. They are so arranged that each stave is isolated. In some 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

compass

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

of two or three octaves. The quality of

tone

TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

is inferior to that of the steel

harmonica

HARMONICA

glockenspiel

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

. (K. S.)

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