Xylophone

Etymology and Alternative Spellings

Fr: claquebois, xylophone; Ger: Holzharmonika, Strohfiedel, Xylophon; It: silofono, xilofono; Sp: xilofono

Construction

A percussion instrument that is made with wooden or synthetic bars arranged in a keyboard fasion. The bars are typically suspended over resonators that are mounted on a frame with wheels. The range for a xylophone can be from two-and-a-half octaves to four octaves. The pitches or notes the instrument contains are from c to c5, or from f to c5. The xylophone also sounds one octave higher than the actual pitches played on the instrument.

Manufacturers

Adams

Dynasty

Mallectech

Musser

Wang

Yamaha