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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]
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 ...
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]
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.
Marimba: Africa Guatemala Mexico Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica Pitched 111.212 Idiophone Marímbula: Caribbean Pitched 122.1 Idiophone Mark tree: United States Unpitched 111.232 Idiophone Also known as a chime tree or bar chimes: Mbira: Africa Pitched 122.1 Idiophone African musical instrument, a type of plucked idiophone (lamellophone ...
A bass drum can weigh anywhere between 15 pounds and 40 pounds, depending on the model and size. Each drummer plays a unique part, though the entire bass drum part is conceived as a whole. This allows for a melodic passage to be carried throughout the bass drumline, having runs of notes that flow up or down the drums and in pitch.
The vibraphone resembles the steel marimba, which it superseded. One of the main differences between the vibraphone and other keyboard percussion instruments is that each bar suspends over a resonator tube containing a flat metal disc. These discs are attached together by a common axle and spin when the motor is turned on.
See also untuned percussion Pitched percussion: A glockenspiel and a set of crotales in use.. This subsection is traditionally called tuned percussion, [2] however the corresponding term untuned percussion is avoided in modern organology in favour of the term unpitched percussion, so the instruments of this subsection are similarly termed pitched percussion.