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The xylophone is a percussion instrument
it is in the percussion family
percushion
yes
because it sounds like it
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The Xylophone is a member of the Percussion family. It will generally reside inline with the other percussionists in the outer row of musicians.
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It is a percussion instrument. It also called a glockenspiel.
Idiophones: these are anything where the sound is generated by the actual body of the instrument, rather than a string, air column etc. Other instruments in this category would be the xylophone, temple block and claves.