xylorimbist

English

Etymology

xylorimba +‎ -ist

Noun

xylorimbist (plural xylorimbists)

1. (rare) Someone who plays a xylorimba.
   • 1929 October, Boys' Life, page 54:

     As a xylorimbist you put new pep into any party — "make" the school orchestra — maybe even pay your way through college.

   • 1999, Howard Jacobson, Peeping Tom, page 207:

     She did not belong either to that gentler but more rhapsodic band who seek to extract strange worshipful music from the male, the xylorimbists or tympanists or flute players.