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"The Britain&amp;#039;s Got Talent judges have been impressed by a teenage xylophone player&amp;#039;s musical skills. Ashley Elliott, 16, told judge Simon Cowell that he believes he can make a career out of music despite the fact that he only plays a percussion instrument.   Before Elliott walked on stage for tonight&amp;#039;s (March 31) Britain&amp;#039;s Got Talent episode, Cowell was despairing at the acts coming onto the stage, muttering that all the Blackpool auditionees were giving them &amp;quot;pier stuff&amp;quot;. When Ashley entered, Cowell warned him that it would be a &amp;quot;very tough audience&amp;quot;, but the teenager insisted that he wants to be a professional xylophone player. He said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been playing the xylophone for two years. I started off in my percussion teacher&amp;#039;s house and I eventually ended up buying that one, and that&amp;#039;s the one I&amp;#039;m playing today.  &amp;quot;I live at home with my mum and dad on a farm. Dad is a farmer and the whole family have been farmers for hundreds of years, but I want to break away and do music as a career.&amp;quot; Judge David Walliams asked Ashley: &amp;quot;Does it get the girls, the xylophone? Because chicks love a xylophone.&amp;quot;  Cowell then queried: &amp;quot;Okay, has anyone sold records playing the xylophone before?&amp;quot; Ashley argued that there have &amp;quot;been people who&amp;#039;ve been accompanied playing the xylophone&amp;quot;, and mentioned famous percussionist Evelyn Glennie, forcing Cowell to admit that he &amp;quot;forgot&amp;quot; about her success. Episode two of Britain&amp;#039;s Got Talent airs tonight (March 31) at 8pm on ITV1. &amp;gt; Britain&amp;#039;s Got Talent: X Factor reject band The Mend make comeback &amp;gt; Britain&amp;#039;s Got Talent: Erotic dancer Beatrix Von Bourbon auditions &amp;gt; Stephen Mulhern&amp;#039;s Britain&amp;#039;s Got Talent Digital Spy blog View a gallery of the acts performing on the show below: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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