xylophonist|zaɪˈlɒfənɪst| [f. xylophone + -ist.] One who plays a xylophone. 1927Daily Tel. 10 May 12/1 Teddy Brown the xylophonist.1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) xvii. 207 He became a xylophonist.1976Gramophone Aug. 345/1 There is a really brilliant xylophonist in ‘Fossils’.