xylophone

Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.

To move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

my eager fingers xylophoning over the memories

Like a cat, I arch into the back of the bench, my spine xylophoning along the slats while the tension of the day slowly drains out of me. I'm totally chill and mellow.