different between xylophone vs marimbaphone

English

Etymology

From xylo- (“of wood”) +? -phone (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: z??l?-f?n', IPA^(key): /?za?.l?.?f??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?za?l??fo?n/
• Hyphenation: xy?lo?phone

Noun

xylophone (plural xylophones)

1. (music) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

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Translations

See also

• glockenspiel
• marimba
• vibraphone

References

• Vienna Symphony Orchestra. "Xylophone".

Verb

xylophone (third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)

1. To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
2. To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

Anagrams

• oxyphenol

French

Etymology

From xylo- +? -phone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zi.l?.f?n/, /ksi.l?.f?n/

Noun

xylophone m (plural xylophones)

1. xylophone

Descendants

• ? Russian: ????????? (ksilofón) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “xylophone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

marimba +? -phone

Noun

marimbaphone (plural marimbaphones)

1. (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba, but with either wooden or steel keys designed to be bowed as well as played normally, developed by J.C. Deagan in early 20th century United States.

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Usage notes

In musical scores, such as for orchestral music, the word marimbaphone often refers to the normal marimba rather than the other instrument more precisely known as the marimbaphone.