any of various musical instruments consisting of tuned metal bars struck with a hammer, such as the glockenspiel
metallophone in American English
(məˈtæləˌfoun)
noun
any musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of metal bars that may either be struck by hammers operated manually or played with a keyboard
Word origin
[1885–90; metallo- + -phone]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: foregut, roller coaster, seminar, twofer, upsweep-phone is a combining form meaning “speech sound” (homophone), “an instrument of sound transmission or reproduction” (telephone), “a musical instrument” (saxophone; xylophone)