1. a musical instrument consisting of tuned metal bars or plates that are struck with mallets to produce sound

Examples

• The children learned to play simple melodies on the metallophone in music class.
• She struck the metal bars of the metallophone with soft mallets.
• The metallophone produced bright, ringing tones that echoed through the concert hall.
• Each bar of the metallophone was carefully tuned to a specific pitch.
• The orchestra included a metallophone in the percussion section.
• He practiced scales on his metallophone every morning.
• The metallophone’s metal plates gleamed under the stage lights.