litophone

noun. lith·​o·​phone ˈli-thə-ˌfōn. plural lithophones. : 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.

: a percussion instrument consisting of a series of wooden bars graduated in length to produce the musical scale, supported on belts of straw or felt, and sounded by striking with two small wooden hammers.

A rudimentary form of lithophone is the "rock gong", usually a natural rock formation opportunistically adapted to produce musical tones, such as that on Mfangano Island, in Lake Victoria, Kenya. The Great Stalacpipe Organ of Luray Caverns, Virginia, USA uses 37 stalactites to produce the Western scale.

Litho is Greek for stone, and phone is sound, so a lithophone is a musical instrument made from stone. They are one of the most ancient instruments, and in China the sound of stone is as elemental as metal or wood.

Lithophones are ancient instruments, stones that vibrate and produce sound when struck. The RISD Museum's lithophone, an inverted L-shaped jade chime, or qing, dates from 1761–1762.

before vowels, lith-, word-forming element meaning "stone, rock;" from Greek lithos "stone, a precious stone, marble; a piece on a game board," a word of unknown origin.

As well as being a classical orchestral instrument, the xylophone is widely played in African music and many types of folk music. It is also popular in some forms of jazz.

A xylophone is a type of musical instrument. It has bars of different lengths arranged side by side. When a performer strikes the bars with a mallet or a stick, the bars produce sounds. Each bar is tuned to produce a particular note.

lithopone, brilliant white pigment used in paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powder. Lithopone was developed in the 1870s as a substitute or supplement for lead carbonate (white lead), to overcome its drawbacks of toxicity, poor weathering, and darkening in atmospheres that contain sulfur compounds.

An idiophone, the lithophone is a set of rocks - granite, fossilized coral, petrified wood, and other melodious stones - that are played by striking them.

The lithophones found in Vietnam are some of the oldest we know. Researchers found that the lithophones discovered in Song Be and Khanh Hoa are between 4000 to 10,000 years old according to Vietnam Discovery. 200 stone lithophones were discovered by the end of the 1980s in several provinces in Vietnam.

Stone In the Greek language, Lithos means Stone; Atmos means Vapour; Hudor means Water; and Bios means Life.