The young child played the toy xylophone for hours at a time. From LearnThat.org.
More importantly, I believe the xylophone is a painfully under-utilized instrument. From Wordnik.com. [Just because ...] Reference
The xylophone is a species of harmonica composed of strips or cylinders of wood, struck with two little hammers. From Wordnik.com. [Principles of orchestration] Reference
And the xylophone was a bit excessive. From Wordnik.com. [Your Friday WTF « Whatever] Reference
Her laughter resembled the tinkle of a toy xylophone. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
A chimp with a two-note xylophone he hits with a bone. From Wordnik.com. [he made his home in that fish's abdomen] Reference
All the notes a xylophone could make when stumbled into. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
Soon, you're going to see a chicken playing the xylophone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2006] Reference
Then one musician rolled the xylophone out into the hallway. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
He got a few bars of "Jingle Bells" played on a tinny xylophone. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
I was actually speculating it might be xylophone-like in structure. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Open thread 135] Reference
As the name, "instrument of wood and straw," indicates, the xylophone. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
Inside drummers played, a young man played a xylophone, and an actor, John. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The ice made soft xylophone music as the floes touched and bumped together. From Wordnik.com. [Quiller Meridian]
The "percus - sions": cymbals, bells, xylophone, chimes and assorted drums. From Wordnik.com. [Unicorn Point]
Ukelele, saxophone, xylophone and sweet vocals all fold into a perfect song. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Bishop Allen’s monthly EPs.] Reference
I played the timpani, the triangle and the xylophone in our school's salsa band. From Wordnik.com. [All-USA boys hoops team: Garden State blooms] Reference
Like most musical instruments, the xylophone, had its origin in very remote times. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
February 26, 2008 at 5:30 pm xylophone nawt az ezee 2 hyde ina bandana az harpoon!. From Wordnik.com. [But what does it do? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
They had a Mac mixing station, a xylophone, electric guitar, and modulated vocals. From Wordnik.com. [Heydalur in Mjóifjörður, Ísafjarðarðjúp] Reference
I pressed the bell-push and heard a noise like someone had walked into a xylophone. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
"It's like a xylophone for the gods," Ruth whispered, taking a seat beside Mr. Tang. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
In ballads she'd turn to her Jean Ritchie voice and a xylophone purity, no toughness. From Wordnik.com. [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]
This time they had the solo xylophone performance on stage, in front of the full crowd. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Like so many other of these evenings, a man ushered folks into dinner with a xylophone. From Wordnik.com. [A Private Party for Perfume Packaging] Reference
Teeth (he retrieves Bic, plays his overbite like a xylophone) are in mouth, not rectum. From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
As the song goes on, her neuroses pulsate to the bongo drum and xylophone accompaniment. From Wordnik.com. [Will Adams: Germany's Eurovision 2010 Song: 'Satellite' by Lena Meyer-Landrut] Reference
It didn't matter that the xylophone player ignored the others for his own private limbo. From Wordnik.com. [With Friends Like These...]
The president even tried one of the instruments for himself — a saron, or Asian xylophone. From Wordnik.com. [Accidental Tourist?] Reference
After all, the Lib Dems have policies on everything from asparagus beds to xylophone-playing. From Wordnik.com. [Is David Cameron tough enough to be a Tory revolutionary?] Reference
Sam and I, like you said, we play xylophone, identical instruments facing right at each other. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Reich: 'Music for 18 (Cornfed) Musicians'] Reference
Raimo was pitched from the saddle and hit the ground with a sound like a demolished xylophone. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
He had a dingy PowerBook attached to straps around his shoulders like a xylophone or something. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Experiment]
It appears that the xylophone was played in Germany as early as the beginning of the 16th century. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
That creepy feeling came over me again'the horrors of death playing my vertebrae like a xylophone. From Wordnik.com. [The 5th Horseman]
(Soundbite of xylophone music) HANSEN: You mentioned you were facing one another now in the studio. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Reich: 'Music for 18 (Cornfed) Musicians'] Reference
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