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  2. Xylophone - Wikipedia

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    Some can be as small a range as 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 octaves but concert xylophones are typically 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 or 4 octaves. Like the glockenspiel, the xylophone is a transposing instrument: its parts are written one octave below the sounding notes. [5] Concert xylophones have tube resonators below the bars to enhance the tone and sustain. Frames are ...

  3. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    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 Chordophone A type of Hammer dulcimer Yangqin: China Pitched Chordophone Type of hammered dulcimer. Yuka: Congo ...

  4. Xylorimba - Wikipedia

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    Xylorimba, range C3-C8. The xylorimba (sometimes referred to as xylo-marimba or marimba-xylophone) is a pitched percussion instrument similar to an extended-range xylophone with a range identical to some 5-octave celestas or 5-octave marimbas, though typically an octave higher than the latter.

  5. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/March 2006 ...

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    1.6 Xylophone. 4 comments. ... 18.8 explanation of cryptic crossword clue. 8 comments ... (Note that the Archbishop of Norway represented coastal farmers who only had ...

  6. Bobby Darin - Wikipedia

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    By the time he was a teenager, Darin could play several instruments, including piano, drums, and guitar. He later added harmonica and xylophone. [18] Darin took his stage name, Bobby Darin, when he began to record. [19] One version of how Darin got the name is that the first three letters on a Mandarin Chinese restaurant were burned out.

  7. Scale (music) - Wikipedia

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    "The number of the notes that make up a scale as well as the quality of the intervals between successive notes of the scale help to give the music of a culture area its peculiar sound quality." [ 6 ] "The pitch distances or intervals among the notes of a scale tell us more about the sound of the music than does the mere number of tones."

  8. Roneat - Wikipedia

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    The word "roneat" is a Khmer word for the bamboo xylophone, which is an ancient musical instrument of Cambodia. According to the Khmer national dictionary, roneat means xylophone and is described as "the percussive musical instrument that has a long body where its bars are made from bamboo or other good quality woods or metal bars striking with a pair of two roneat sticks played in the pinpeat ...

  9. Glockenspiel - Wikipedia

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    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.