Xylophone is Greek and comes from the two words; “Xylos” meaning “wood” and “phonos” meaning “sound”. It is a word that in everyday language covers a whole family of instruments that have wooden bars that you strike with a mallet when you play.
The basic pentatonic xylophone can be used as an introduction of music to the child. For use at home, in the kindergarten by musical games and storytelling and much more.