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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe xylophone<\/strong> (from Ancient Greek<\/a> \u03be\u03cd\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd<\/a> (x\u00falon)<\/em> ‘wood’, and \u03c6\u03c9\u03bd\u03ae<\/a> (ph\u014dn\u1e17)<\/em> ‘sound, voice’;[1]<\/sup><\/a>[2]<\/sup><\/a> lit.\u2009’sound of wood’) is a musical instrument<\/a> in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets<\/a>. Like the glockenspiel<\/a>, the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano<\/a>. Each bar is an idiophone<\/a> tuned to a pitch of a musical scale<\/a>, whether pentatonic<\/a> or heptatonic<\/a> in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic<\/a> in many western children’s instruments, or chromatic<\/a> for orchestral use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The term xylophone<\/em> may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba<\/a>, balafon<\/a> and even the semantron<\/a>. However, in the orchestra<\/a>, the term xylophone<\/em> refers specifically to a chromatic instrument of somewhat higher pitch range and drier timbre<\/a> than the marimba<\/a>, and these two instruments should not be confused. A person who plays the xylophone is known as a xylophonist<\/em> or simply a xylophone player<\/em>.[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The term is also popularly used to refer to similar instruments of the lithophone<\/a> and metallophone<\/a> types. For example, the Pixiphone<\/a> and many similar toys described by the makers as xylophones have bars of metal rather than of wood, and so are in organology<\/a> regarded as glockenspiels<\/a> rather than as xylophones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Golden Age of the Xylophone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Outro”: Hilton College Competition Marimba Band- own composition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Musical Fact Of The Week<\/p>\n\n\n\n Question<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the most popular sing along song?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Answer<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 12 Best Sing-Along Songs<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tyros 5 – ABBA – Dancing Queen (Instrumental) Cover<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Foundations \/\/\/ Build Me Up, Buttercup \/\/\/ Piano Cover<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Riddle Of The Week<\/p>\n\n\n\n Question<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s the capital of France?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Answer<\/p>\n\n\n\n The letter \u201cF.\u201d It’s the only capital letter in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Composer Of The Week<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ludwig van Beethoven<\/strong> (\/\u02c8l\u028adv\u026a\u0261 v\u00e6n \u02c8be\u026ato\u028av\u0259n\/<\/a> ( Beethoven – F\u00fcr Elise<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Beethoven: Minuet in G Major, WoO 10, No. 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meet The Instruments The Percussion Family The Xylophone The xylophone (from Ancient Greek \u03be\u03cd\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd (x\u00falon) ‘wood’, and \u03c6\u03c9\u03bd\u03ae (ph\u014dn\u1e17) ‘sound, voice’;[1][2] lit.\u2009’sound of wood’) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel, the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned keys arranged in Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ludwig van Beethoven<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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