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Wood block: Unpitched 111.24 Idiophone Wood scraper block: Temple blocks: China Both 111.24 Idiophone [5] [8] Xylophone: Ghana, Uganda, Zambia Pitched 111.212 Idiophone The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets Xylorimba: Pitched 111.212 Idiophone Yanggeum: Korea Pitched ...
A woodblock (also spelled as two words, wood block) is a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood. The term generally signifies the Western orchestral instrument, but may also refer to the Chinese woodblock. In ragtime and jazz music, it is also known as the clog box or tap box.
The xylophone (from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon) 'wood' and φωνή (phōnḗ) 'sound, voice'; [1] [2] lit. ' sound of wood ' ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets .
An updated version of the instrument made by Latin Percussion, known as "granite blocks", is made out of plastic rather than wood. [6] The sound of temple blocks is similar to that of normal woodblocks, although temple blocks have a darker, more "hollow" timbre. [7] In their most common configuration of five, temple blocks are typically tuned ...
Glockenspiel and Crotales. A keyboard percussion instrument, also known as a bar or mallet percussion instrument, is a pitched percussion instrument arranged in the same pattern as a piano keyboard and most often played using mallets. [1]
Wood scraper block. A wood scraper block, also known as wooden agogo or tone wood block, is an idiophone percussion instrument. It consists, usually, in a pair of small tubes made of wood, each one of different size, producing different tones. These tubes are played with a stick and have a ribbed surface to double as scraper.
The kulintang a kayo (literally, “wooden kulintang”) is a Philippine xylophone of the Maguindanaon people with eight tuned slabs strung horizontally atop a padded wooden antangan (rack). Made of hand-carved soft wood such as bayug (genus Pterospermum) or more likely tamnag (genus unknown), the kulintang a kayo is rarely found except in ...
The sound produced is affected by the instrument's size, type of wood, and how hollow it is. Most wood instruments are of the ancient variety: Zhu (Chinese: 柷; pinyin: zhù) – a wooden box that tapers from the top to the bottom, played by hitting a stick on the inside, used to mark the beginning of music in ancient ritual music