Crossword-Solution: XYLOPHONE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Xylophone | n. | An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle. |
| Xylophone | n. | An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “XYLOPHONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Percussion instrument with wooden bars | 1 answer |
| Marimba kin | 1 answer |
| Marching-band instrument hit with small mallets | 1 answer |
| MARIMBA | 1 answer |
| Its first notable orchestral use was in Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" | 1 answer |
| balafon | 2 answers |
| VIBRAHARP | 2 answers |
| Marimba's cousin | 2 answers |
| vibraphone | 2 answers |
| Hammered instrument | 2 answers |
| INSTRUMENT using sound | 2 answers |
| amadinda | 3 answers |
| AN HONOUR TO ACCEPT ORBISON'S FIRST INSTRUMENT | 10 answers |
| A PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT WITH WOODEN BARS TUNED TO PRODUCE A CHROMATIC SCALE AND WITH RESONATORS | 11 answers |
| Percussion instrument | 25 answers |
| Piano | 26 answers |
| musical instrument | 68 answers |
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Sentences with XYLOPHONE (5)
Only one of the four musicians had arrived--the man who played the drums, cymbals, triangle and xylophone--a fat, discouraged old man who knew how easily he could be replaced.
This year brought to Paris two Polish musicians: Lipinski, the violinist, and Gusikow, the virtuoso on the Strohfiedel, [FOOTNOTE: "Straw-fiddle," Gigelira, or Xylophone, an instrument consisting of a graduated series of bars of wood that lie on cords of twisted straw and are struck with sticks.] whom Mendelssohn called "a true genius," and another contemporary pointed out as one of the three great stars (Paganini and Malibran were the two others) at that time shining in the musical heavens.
The celesta, an instrument with keyboard and bell tone, contributes fascinating effects, and the xylophone is used;--utterances that are lascivious as well as others that are macabre.
But how could that be when the skeleton had neither eyes nor a place to carry them? It thrashed its bony arms impatiently and its ribs rattled like a xylophone.
Their linguistic instruments are no more capable of contemporary thought than a tin whistle, a xylophone, and a drum are capable of rendering the Eroica Symphony.
Quotes with XYLOPHONE (3)
From time to time, too, and for the space of two or three paces, an image or an echo would rise up from the recesses of time: in the little streets of the beaters of silver and gold, for instance, there was a clear, unhurried tinkling, as if a djinn with a thousand arms was absent-mindedly practising on a xylophone.
After an afternoon of interviewing Siri it turns out there are millions of questions that it can't or won't answer: How did you get my phone number? How many Siris are there? Did you have a Christmas party? Who is playing the tiny xylophone before and after each interaction? Are you spying on us, plotting the downfall of our species?
Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (2001–2020).