Xylophone vs. Vibraphone

Xylophonenoun

(musical instrument) 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.

Xylophoneverb

To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.

Xylophoneverb

To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

Xylophonenoun

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.

Xylophonenoun

An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood.

Xylophonenoun

a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets

Xylophone

The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, + φωνή—phōnē, , literally meaning ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel, the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano.

Vibraphonenoun

A percussion instrument with a double row of tuned metal bars, each above the tubular resonator containing a motor-driven rotating vane, giving a vibrato effect.

Vibraphonenoun

a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound

Vibraphone

The vibraphone is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is usually played by holding two or four soft mallets and striking the bars.