Definition : (from the Greek lithos, " Pierre ", And phone," his ").

Term for percussion instruments made of stone, marble, etc. It seems that some churches in Lithuania had one or more slabs suspended outside the building to serve as church bells. China has known in its temples instruments made up of sixteen L-shaped plates, sometimes in jade, the origin of which dates from the second millennium BC. There is in Great Britain a large harmonica of " Pierre »Fitted with basalt bars, kept at the Keswick Museum (Cumbria)

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Music - University of Oxford.