0 a musical instrument consisting of flat wooden bars of different lengths that are hit with sticks
1 a musical instrument of flat, wooden bars of different lengths that produce notes when hit with sticks
However, sometimes children dabbed at the xylophone with smaller, quicker, more jerky and less regular movements.
The pathways were often extended in simple reversals, strike patterns up and down the xylophone or glissandi movements back and forth.
Soaked socks, torn drum skins, hands crawling at the mesh of playpens while tinny xylophones plunked eerily pinching fingers.
This is useful for xylophone or piano-like instruments, where a separate input is required for controlling each pitched component.
The work opened with rapidly-played repeated notes from the soloist, punctuated by xylophone.
The xylophone construction provides a fixed horizontal surface comprising a deck of keys framed by two flat, wooden ends.
The broad cart, a kind of xylophone, is hung with colorful song texts.
For 'impulsive excitations', the musician might strike something, such as a drum or a xylophone, either with the hand or a mallet or stick.