Associations to the word «Xylophone»

Pictures for the word «Xylophone»

Wiktionary

XYLOPHONE, noun. Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

Dictionary definition

XYLOPHONE, noun. A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats