xylophone
         n 1: a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a
               chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small
               mallets [syn: {marimba}, {xylophone}]

English Dictionary: xylophone	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
xylophonist n someone who plays a xylophone
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Xylophone \Xy"lo*phone\, n. [Xylo- + Gr. fwnh` sound.]       1. (Mus.) 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}.          2. An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of             different kinds of wood. --Knight.