xylophone
木琴
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noun
It is a simple ballad with a choirboy singing a melody over a xylophone and soft string orchestral backing.
a musical instrument played by striking a row of wooden bars of graduated length with one or more small wooden or plastic mallets.
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She played the tambourine, the 'xylophone' , and the harmonica, all to our swooning hearts' delight.
Although I guessed that they didn't have their usual large scale entourage, the band was fleshed out nicely with an electric cello, violin, 'xylophone' , bass, drums, guitars and various vintage synths.
On Monoke, Chantler was using electronic devices to treat piano, guitar, 'xylophone' and local Japanese instruments and arranging his sounds into complex structures.
It is a simple ballad with a choirboy singing a melody over a 'xylophone' and soft string orchestral backing.
Percussion is composed of sleigh bells, tambourine, 'xylophone' and kettle drums.
Here the group combines trombone, a simplistic guitar line, and what sounds like either a marimba or a 'xylophone' .
Jim, a pupil of Smithy Bridge School, is not only a highly accomplished drummer owning his own drum kit, but also plays the 'xylophone' , timpani, piano and accordion.
The album opens with shimmering, aquatic 'xylophones' before the drums crash in with a fractured march, and a woozy bass spills like a cloud of ink all over everything.
As a preamble to the actual event, the high school band performed some weird xylophone compositions, which featured a bunch of kids playing cymbals and drums… the 'xylophonists' were great!
The entertainment is firmly in the hands, or mallets of master 'xylophonist' Ian who leads the orchestra.
Dwarfed by a large screen on which there are projections of singing puppets and mind-numbing flash visuals, Manitoba bashes away on dual drum kits, keyboards, 'xylophones' , melodicas and stringless guitars.
First the 'xylophonic' tinkering, then the thunderous drums, instantly knock you out.
The range of music is staggering: whistling soloists, 'xylophonists' playing polkas, John Philip Sousa leading his band through famous marches.
This biopic about a legendary Thai 'xylophonist' 's beautifully shot, but that's about all that can be legitimately praised.
Drums are a common instrument, as are wooden 'xylophones' ; bow harps; zithers; and the sanza, a small thumb piano fashioned from bamboo.
During the funeral ritual, every phrase the 'xylophonist' plays has literal meaning in the Dagara language.
Over an aching vocal performance, Tipton swaddles Nilsson all in bells, oboes, glockenspiels, blurted brass, pizzicato'd violins, and 'xylophones' , bidding an elongated adieu to pop's previously ornate design.
One of the most widely known of the 'xylophonists' in the 1920's was George Hamilton Green.
Left behind are dry nipping ambient winds and sleepy-eyed guitars like so many tattered articles of clothing and in their place emerge woolly layers of banjo, children's 'xylophones' , trumpets and home-recorded toy pianos.
A war of words, clash of syllables, 'xylophonic' weapons drawn, engagement thence decided, arrows slung, striped with ‘shan't’ and ‘whilst.’
They were to be accompanied by two grand pianos played by musicians, as well as three 'xylophones' , four bass drums, a gong, three aeroplane propellers, seven electric bells and a siren.
In the studio control room, Composer Gillis watched the struggling 'xylophonist' , whispered to a companion: ‘Poor guy.’
Dancing piano keys, stroking violins and cellos, tapping 'xylophones' , beats, electronic elements… there's room for them all on this magnificent musical exhibition.
The serious 'xylophonist' will find this work to be challenging, rewarding and a crowd pleaser.
A thick gush of guitar and 'xylophonic' pluck, the vocals are pushed up front for the first time.
In these and other small group contexts, the 'xylophonist' recorded many memorable performances.
I think the 'xylophonist' was Zombie Chernenko.
By letting Declan use a range of musical instruments - everything from drums, 'xylophones' and bongos to the piano and even his own voice - Angela enabled him to learn to communicate again.
They used one of his numbers to open last year called ‘Blue Midnight’ and featured their excellent 'xylophonist' as soloist before rounding things off with ‘Shine As the Light’
The version of Dropshadow's ‘Disease Fototienda’ is suffused with 'xylophonic' scales, bent mandolins, military snares and sparkling orchestral pop, and bound with Velcro.
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