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Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase; Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase; Jumble: a kind of word game in which the solution of a puzzle is its anagram
The xylophone-like ranat was used in Hindu regions (kashta tharang). In Indonesia, few regions have their own type of xylophones. In North Sumatra, The Toba Batak people use wooden xylophones known as the Garantung (spelled: "garattung"). Java and Bali use xylophones (called gambang, Rindik and Tingklik) in gamelan ensembles.
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Xylorimba, range C3-C8. The xylorimba (sometimes referred to as xylo-marimba or marimba-xylophone) is a pitched percussion instrument similar to an extended-range xylophone with a range identical to some 5-octave celestas or 5-octave marimbas, though typically an octave higher than the latter.
The balafon (pronounced / ˈ b æ l ə f ɒ n /, or, by analogy with xylophone etc., / ˈ b æ l ə f oʊ n /) is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone. [1] It is closely associated with the neighbouring Mandé, Bwaba Bobo, Senoufo and Gur peoples of West Africa, [1] [2] particularly the Guinean branch of the Mandinka ethnic group, [3] but is now found across West Africa from ...
The word "roneat" is a Khmer word for the bamboo xylophone, which is an ancient musical instrument of Cambodia. According to the Khmer national dictionary, roneat means xylophone and is described as "the percussive musical instrument that has a long body where its bars are made from bamboo or other good quality woods or metal bars striking with a pair of two roneat sticks played in the pinpeat ...
Central Africa-type xylophones: consist of a set of wooden planks laid on banana logs. These are becoming increasingly rare since they are less portable. Frame xylophones: contain wooden frames and calabash gourd resonators. The Beti people play large ensembles of frame xylophones, which they call mendzaŋ. Also called nzaŋa in Mbum and ...
For example, the English word through consists of three phonemes: the initial "th" sound, the "r" sound, and a vowel sound. The phonemes in that and many other English words do not always correspond directly to the letters used to spell them (English orthography is not as strongly phonemic as that of many other languages).