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.

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.

• a musical instrument made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like hammer.
       All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?
  
  French
• xylophone
  
  German
• plural of Xylophon.