The xylophone belongs to the percussion family of Musical Instruments. It is classified as a tuned percussion instrument because it produces specific pitches when its wooden bars are struck with mallets. The arrangement of the bars, which are usually made of hardwood, allows for a melodic range similar to that of a piano, making it distinct within the percussion family.
The xylophone is a percussion instrument
it is in the percussion family
percushion
because it sounds like it
yes
percussion brass woodwind string
with mallets
It is a percussion instrument. It also called a glockenspiel.
xylophone
· xylophone
The Xylophone is a member of the Percussion family. It will generally reside inline with the other percussionists in the outer row of musicians.
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.