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n. A large wooden percussion instrument with resonators, resembling a xylophone.

n. A musical instrument similar to a xylophone but clearer in pitch.

n. A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck.

n. An African musical instrument formed of a number of strips of wood of various sizes yielding different notes when struck by a hammer. The sound is often reinforced by resonators formed from calabashes placed underneath.

n. In the Kongo region and Angola, a name of a musical instrument with iron keys; the sansa.

n. a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets

"From "Bach on Wood" (a marimba, that is) and Vivaldi on the Japanese Koto, to Schubert on a wood-cutting saw and Wagner on power tools, dozens of classical composers have been subjected to strange arrangements."

percussion instrument    percussive instrument   

xylophone    xylorimba    vibraphone    glockenspiel    marimbaphone   

xylorimba    marimbist   

Simba   

glockenspiel    Schneider    Dobro    kaska    bodhran    twanging    sax    harmonica    cithern    percussion