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  Color a Xylophone
Consisting of hardwood bars in graduated sizes set on a metal frame, this tuned instrument is struck by hard mallets to produce a bright, sharp sound.
With the larger, lower sounding bars on the left, the notes of the xylophone are laid out much like a piano keyboard.
Originally from Africa, the xylophone has a Greek name meaning "wood sound." The xylophone was first used in the orchestra just over a century ago.
www.dsokids.com /art/colorbook/xylo.html   (84 words)

  
  Xylophone Craft | Alphabet Letter X Theme | Colors | Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities
Prepare a display to explore a toy xylophone and other percussion instruments that you may have: drums, castanets, maracas, cymbals, triangle, chimes, timpani, and bells, etc. Refer to the display while presenting the rest of the activities.
The xylophone (Greek xylon=wood, phone=sound) or marimba (almost identical) belongs to the family of percussion instruments.
The xylophone is in many cases the first musical instrument and toy that helps a young child to discover those magical musical notes and the richness of colors.
www.first-school.ws /activities/crafts/music/xylophone_craft.htm   (878 words)

  
  Xylophone - Background, History, Raw materials, The manufacturing process, Quality control, Byproducts/waste
The xylophone is a component of the percussion section of an orchestra and many instrumental groups.
Xylophone manufacture is based on traditional designs with little variation, so the design process is limited to selecting the size or range of the xylophone and the finish of the frame.
The xylophone bars or keys are cut to lengths ranging from long keys for the low notes to shorter keys for the higher notes.
www.madehow.com /Volume-6/Xylophone.html   (2438 words)

  
 eBay Guides - X is For Xylophone of course
The Xylophone is an instrument which is part of the percussion section of the band or orchestra.
The xylophone is a tuned instrument made of hardwood bars in graduated lengths positioned horizontally on a metal frame.
Even though his metal barred xylophone will be replaced with a lovely wooden barred one in his teenage years, he will already be accustomed to the instrument and his apprehension about learning to play the orchestral version will be minimal.
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 Xylophone: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Eva Keuls, " The Apulian xylophone ", in AJA 83, 1979, pp.
The xylophone, imported from China, was on sale in...court to answer a charge of selling a toy xylophone which failed to comply with safety regulations...
Among the percussion instruments used in the West are the bell, the celesta, the glockenspiel, the xylophone (and similar marimba), and the Caribbean steel drum.
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/xylophone.jsp?l=X&p=1   (1451 words)

  
 Xylophone - Uncyclopedia
The xylophones of the early-to-mid 20th Century were gigantic pollution-belching monstrosities that were capable of communicating over relatively short distances of several inches.
In today's post-modern dystopia, xylophones are regularly embedded by the thousands on a single VLSI integrated circuit, which makes it possible to communicate telepathically with xylophonists all over the known galaxy.
xylophones can also be turned into skate boards; take 2 of their wheels and 5 medium sized blocks of the xylophone and a piece of string.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Xylophone   (743 words)

  
 #870 Pull-A-Tune Xylophone
Description: The Pull-A-Tune Xylophone is a well-known long-lived Fisher-Price toy that appeals to children of all ages.
During it's long production, the xylophone was slightly changed several times with different lithographs on the sides, wooden wheels verses plastic wheels, wooden mallot verses plastic mallot, etc., but the over-all look, action, and appeal remain the same through all of the years.
The xylophone has 8 metal keys: (smallest to largest) red, orange, yellow, light green, dark green, light blue, dark blue, and purple.
www.thisoldtoy.com /l_fp_set/toy-pages/800-899/870-pullatunexylophone.html   (917 words)

  
 xylophone
A xylophone is a set of wooden bars, mounted on a frame.
Most xylophones have tubes or gourds below each bar to increase the volume of the sound.
The bars of the xylophone are made from rosewood.
www.playmusic.org /percussion/xylophone.html   (233 words)

  
 Percussion - Marimba and Xylophone
The simplest xylophone were a pair of bars that laid across the player's legs.
The use of the xylophone spread throughout the continent of Africa, possibly by being imported through Madagascar.
Xylophones mounted on a frame may have a gourd or tubular resonators suspended under each bar.
www.mathcs.duq.edu /~iben/marixylo.htm   (264 words)

  
 BBC - Nottingham - Features - Xylophone Man remembered
Xylophone Man, whose real name was Frank Robinson, died from a heart attack on the 4th of July 2004 at the age of 73.
Xylophone man was without a doubt one of the most bizarre yet famous musicians in Nottingham.
Despite the fact he has recently broadened his range to the odd Christmas carol, his approach to his instrument is still much the same as would a child's be, had they just received the instrument for Christmas.
www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/content/articles/2005/09/05/xylophone_man_update_feature.shtml   (890 words)

  
 xylophone - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
xylophone [Gr.,=wood sound], musical instrument having graduated wooden slabs that are struck by the player with small, hard mallets.
The slabs are usually arranged like a keyboard, and the range varies from two to four octaves.
Since the 1920s the xylophone has been equipped with tubular resonators and thus is essentially identical with the marimba.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-xylophon.html   (331 words)

  
 Instrument Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Xylophones were introduced to European orchestral music in the late 19th century, in such works as Saint -Saens' "Dance Macabre" (1874).
A myriad of works for other instruments have been transcribed for xylophones, from J.S. Bach's Two Part Inventions to Popular music now in orchestral and jazz ensembles throughout the west, xylophones continue to have traditional significance throughout much of Africa, Malaysia, Melanesia, Indonesia and regions of the Americas.
Xylophones were first brought to Latino communities by African slaves during the Spanish conquest of the 16th and 17th centuries.
www.si.umich.edu /chico/instrument/pages/xylo_gnrl.html   (461 words)

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