Xylophone - Bate Collection, Oxford, Europe - CC BY-NC-SA.
https://www.europeana.eu/de/item/09102/_MINIM_UK_4513
Origin: Africa
Materials: Wood on a frame of cane and wood, with gourd resonators
Family: Percussion, idiophone
Similar: Marimba, balafon, semantron.
Use: Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use.
Social context: Diverse
Link: Wikipedia
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instrument