XYLOPHONES

 

This instrument, consisting of wooden bars arranged in keyboard, receives it name from the Greek  word xylon (wood) and phone (voice).
It was originated  in Asia and Africa, having evidence to date from ninth century in its early form.
It is believed that they arrived in Europe in the fourteenth century and its first use in orchestral music was by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns in "Danse Macabre" in the year 1874.