![]() ![]() Others are "trough" xylophones with a single hollow body that acts as a resonator for all the bars. In other music cultures some versions have gourds that act as Helmholtz resonators. Frames are made of wood or cheap steel tubing: more expensive xylophones feature height adjustment and more stability in the stand. ![]() Ĭoncert xylophones have tube resonators below the bars to enhance the tone and sustain. Like the glockenspiel, the xylophone is a transposing instrument: its parts are written one octave below the sounding notes. Some can be as small a range as 2 + 1⁄ 2 octaves but concert xylophones are typically 3 + 1⁄ 2 or 4 octaves. The modern western xylophone has bars of rosewood, padauk, cocobolo, or various synthetic materials such as fiberglass or fiberglass-reinforced plastic which allows a louder sound. ![]() For example, the Pixiphone and many similar toys described by the makers as xylophones have bars of metal rather than of wood, and so are in organology regarded as glockenspiels rather than as xylophones. The term is also popularly used to refer to similar instruments of the lithophone and metallophone types. A person who plays the xylophone is known as a xylophonist or simply a xylophone player. However, in the orchestra, the term xylophone refers specifically to a chromatic instrument of somewhat higher pitch range and drier timbre than the marimba, and these two instruments should not be confused. The term xylophone may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba, balafon and even the semantron. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned wooden keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. 'sound of wood') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. The xylophone (from Ancient Greek ξύλον ( xúlon) 'wood', and φωνή ( phōnḗ) 'sound, voice' lit. Problems playing these files? See media help. ![]()
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