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Xylophone
A
percussion instrument of wooden bars laid out in an incremental row. Normal xylophones have a range of three-and-a-half octaves. If you have any better suggestions as to what else we might put under 'X', then we welcome your emails, postcards, carrier pigeons, etc.





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