单词 | xylophone |
例句 | xylophone nounWORD NOTE xylophone The xylophone is a member of the ideophone family of instruments having tuned bars on a frame, played with mallets. The xylophone has wooden bars; African versions are the marimba and the balaphone, which has a gourd resonator hanging under each bar. Any ideophone with metal bars is a metallophone: one with only a few bars is a chime; more bars makes it a glockenspiel; a big one with mechanical vibrato is a vibraphone, or vibes. — SMConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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