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 Translation for 'xylophone' from English to Spanish
NOUN   a xylophone | xylophones
SYNO marimba | xylophone
mús.
xilófono {m}
xylophone
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Translation for 'xylophone' from English to Spanish

xylophone
xilófono {m}mús.
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Usage Examples English
  • Instruments that she's credited with creating include ngoma (drum), marimba (xylophone), kalimba (lamellaphone), makweyana or musical bow and a raft zither or hand xylophone known as mukimbe.
  • The modern sound of traditional Xitsonga music comprises more of the earlier native sounds that had initially been abandoned in favor of the Portuguese electronic guitars, namely the xylophone and bass marimba.
  • Like the xylophone and marimba, the xylorimba consists of a series of wooden bars laid out like a piano keyboard "with a compass sufficiently large to embrace the low-sounding bars of the marimba and the highest-sounding bars of the xylophone."
  • The amadinda is a xylophone of the type called log xylophone.
  • From 1931 on Brown played xylophone on the radio, in films and on the variety stage.

  • During the 1920s, while still a teenager, Hampton took xylophone lessons from Jimmy Bertrand and began to play drums.
  • The glockenspiel is sometimes erroneously referred to as a xylophone.
  • The term "xylophone" may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba, balafon and even the semantron.
  • The "roneat thmor" (...) or literally stone xylophone is thought to be the earliest form of xylophone.
  • Pierce Knox (June 1, 1921 - September 19, 1985) was a blind xylophone and marimba player who toured from coast to coast and in Canada during the 1940s and 1950s.

  • But as he once said "You can't make a living out of the xylophone if you play it right."
  • A board game, complete with an eight-key xylophone, was released in 1960 by Lowell Toy Mfg.
  • Earlier press also made mention of their use of xylophone in songs, referring to them as "xylo-punks" and noting "[...]here aren’t a whole lot of punk bands that feature the xylophone".
  • During World War I he worked as a musician at the Arch Street Theatre; he also played xylophone on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit.
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