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[19] Etymologically, a
xylophone
makes ‘sounds’ from ‘wood’. The term was coined in the 1860s from Greek
xúlon
‘wood’ (an allusion to the instrument’s tuned wooden bars) and the combining form -
phone
‘sound’.