Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A percussion instrument consisting of a series of metal bars that make tones when struck with either handheld or keyboard-controlled mallets.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pianoforte with graduated metal bars instead of strings.
- noun An instrument like the xylophone, but with metallic instead of wooden bars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings.
- noun An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any musical
instrument consisting of tunedmetal bars which are struck to makesound .
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Examples
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The glockenspiel - not to be confused with a xylophone - is the most well-known of the metallophone family of instruments.
Culture | guardian.co.uk David McNamee 2010
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Like other [[metallophone]] s, it is a part of the percussion section, but is usually played by a pianist rather than percussionist.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Amccloud 2010
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Like other [[metallophone]] s, it is a part of the percussion section, but is usually played by a pianist rather than percussionist.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Amccloud 2010
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Its formation is two xylophones (roneat ek and roneat thung, resprectively high and low registers), a metallophone
WeLove-music 2008
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