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Definition of Metallophones
1. metallophone [n] - See also: metallophone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metallophones
Literary usage of Metallophones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sound and Music by John Augustine Zahm (1892)
"They are known as metallophones, and are sometimes employed to give brilliancy
and color to band and orchestral music. ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"metallophones As musical Instrument, see Musical Instrument METALLURGICAL
COKE "Metallurgical coke" Is coke suitable for the ..."
3. Reports and Awards by United States Centennial Commission (1877)
"MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, SUCH AS metallophones, ETC. Report.—Commended for cheapness
and good workmanship. 118. Albin Bauer, Jr., Paulus & Schuster, ..."
4. Indonesia by James Hardy (2002)
"... villages: each has its orchestra with a unique collection of valuable instruments:
gongs, cymbals, metallophones (metal xylophones), drums and flutes. ..."
5. Treasury Decisions Under Tariff and Internal Revenue Laws, Etc by United States Dept. of the Treasury (1898)
"Jew's-harps, music boxes, harmonicas, metallophones, etc., chiefly used for the
amusement of children, dutiable as musical instruments under the act of 1897 ..."
6. Mum's Clare: A Mother's Eye View of Indonesia by Gina Graham (2005)
"Apart from wooden drums, stringed wooden box shapes and bamboo flutes, most
instruments were burnished bronze percussion pots with some metallophones and ..."
7. United States Compiled Statutes, Annotated, 1916: Embracing the Statutes of by John Allan Mallory, United States (1917)
"Mouth organs, harmonicas, or metallophones.—Certain metallo- phones and mouth
organs or harmonicas, having at least one full octave, and capable of playing ..."
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