lithophone
noun
lith·o·phone
| \ ˈli-thə-ˌfōn
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plural lithophones
Definition of lithophone
: any of a class of percussion instruments (such as the qing) that are made of stone and whose sound is produced by striking
These ancient lithophones were clearly tuned by flaking and yield two sonorous pentatonic scales.— Thomas D. Rossing, Science of Percussion Instruments, 2000
— compare crystallophone, metallophone
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