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The Xylophone (from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon) ' wood ' and φωνή (phōnḗ) ' sound, voice '; [1] [2] lit. ' sound of wood ') is a fun musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden or metal bars struck by mallets.
The gabbang, also known as bamboo xylophone, is a musical instrument made of bamboo widely used in southern Philippines. Among the Tausugs and Samas , it is commonly played to accompany songs and dances as a solo instrument or accompanied by the biola .
Portrait of Lowe ca. 1900. Charles P. Lowe was an American xylophonist who made numerous recordings in the early days of the recording industry.. In 1883 Lowe was featured in a series of concerts at West End, New Orleans directed by Gustav D'Aquin. [1]
Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (French: [ɑ̃twan ʒozɛf adɔlf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) [a] was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba, and redesigned the bass clarinet in a fashion still used to the present day.
The glockenspiel (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ k ə n ʃ p iː l / GLO-kən-shpeel; German pronunciation: [ˈɡlɔkənˌʃpiːl] or [ˈɡlɔkn̩ˌʃpiːl], Glocken: bells and Spiel: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout.
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
The celestaphone was a musical instrument of the zither family, which was played by pressing spring-levers to cause small hammers to strike the strings of the instrument.. The term celestaphone was also used for a glass-plate xylophone designed by Charles C. Weidman of Ohio State University around the 1930s. [1]
New Zealand percussion group From Scratch in concert, 2020, with three thongophones visible behind the players. A thongophone is a musical instrument classified as a percussion instrument and a plosive aerophone.