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The glockenspiel is limited to the upper register and typically covers between 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 and 3 octaves, though certain professional models may reach up to 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 octaves. [4] The glockenspiel is often a transposing instrument and sounds two octaves above the written pitch, though this is sometimes remedied by using an octave clef. [5]
See pitched percussion instrument for discussion of the differences between tuned and untuned percussion. The term pitched percussion is now preferred to the traditional term tuned percussion: Each list is alphabetical.
The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...
A pair of timbales, two cowbells, a jam block and a cymbal all in use as unpitched percussion Three instruments on the spectrum between pitched and unpitched: whistle, woodblocks, crotales Play ⓘ An unpitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument played in such a way as to produce sounds of indeterminate pitch , or an instrument ...
The name is a slight misnomer, in that almost every percussion instrument is played with some type of mallet or stick. With the exception of the marimba, almost every other keyboard instrument has been used widely in an orchestral setting. There are many extremely common and well-known excerpts for most of the mallet instruments.
Hornbostel–Sachs classifies musical instruments by means of a numerically labelled inverted tree structure, originally with four groups at the highest level, two of which are percussion instruments (as the term percussion is normally understood), and the others strings and wind.
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The range of the marimba has been gradually expanding, with companies like Marimba One adding notes up to F above the normal high C (C 7) on their 5.5 octave instrument and marimba tuners adding notes lower than the low C on the 5 octave C 2. Adding lower notes is somewhat impractical; as the bars become bigger and the resonators become longer ...