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In an effort to keep loyal customers informed and up to date, Paul Reed Smith Guitars' Customer Support Center is online and available to the world! There's a wealth of technical information include schematics and switching position information, as well as useful snippets regarding bridge, tuner, truss rod and pickup height setups! You'll find a bunch of useful and interesting stuff at the PRS Customer Support Center; check it out today!

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Xylophone
A percussion instrument consisting of a mounted row of wooden bars graduated in length to sound a chromatic scale, played with two small mallets. Word History: Alphabet books for children frequently feature the word xylophone because it is one of the few words beginning with x that a child (or most adults, for that matter) would know. The majority of English words beginning with x, including many obscure scientific terms, are of Greek origin, the x, pronounced (z), representing the Greek letter xi. In the case of xylophone, xylo- is a form meaning "wood," derived from Greek xulon, "wood," and -phone represents Greek phon, "voice, sound," the same element found in words such as telephone, microphone, and megaphone. This famous x-word is first recorded in the April 7, 1866, edition of the Athenaeum: "A prodigy... who does wonderful things with little drumsticks on a machine of wooden keys, called the 'xylophone.'
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