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Xylophone vs Saxophone - What's the difference?

xylophone | saxophone |

As nouns the difference between xylophone and saxophone

is that xylophone is a musical instrument made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like hammer while saxophone is a single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.

xylophone

Noun

(en noun)
  • a musical instrument made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like hammer.
  • All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

    Derived terms

    * xylophonist

    See also

    * glockenspiel * marimba * vibraphone ----

    saxophone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (musical instruments) A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.
  • Derived terms

    * saxophonist * sopranino saxophone * soprano saxophone * alto saxophone * tenor saxophone * baritone saxophone * bass saxophone * contra-bass saxophone

    See also

    * (wikipedia)