Xylophone
Xylophone , noun
[Xylo- + Greek fwnh` sound.]
1.
(Music) Originally, 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; now any similar musical instrument composed of a series of bars of graduated length. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.
2.
An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood. — Knight