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Certain handbell pieces will involve playing handbells and handchimes at the same time, or alternating between the two through various sections of the music. Handbell ensembles will frequently have a collection of handchimes to use along with their handbells. [2] Handchimes are also used in classrooms to teach music. [5]
However some newer handbell music published today specifies to play an octave lower than written (meaning middle C sounds as C4 like on the piano) if the composer wants a bit more of a vocal character out of the handbells, or if the handbells are being used to accompany vocal choirs in order to not overpower the singers.
The group is a double handbell choir, performing with 27 to 35 ringers on two sets of Malmark handbells (one seven-octave set and one 6½ octave set) and two sets of Malmark handchimes (six octaves each). The octave two bells are Malmark aluminums. Each part is usually doubled (played by two ringers on separate sets), except octave two.
The octave or nominal, the twelfth, and the upper octave normally have frequencies nearly in the ratios 2:3:4 [See Table]. The ear assumes these to be partials of a missing fundamental, which it hears as the strike note." [3] In a well-tuned bell the strike note is generally close to the prime. [11]
Incipit for "La campanella" by Franz Liszt (Grandes études de Paganini S. 141 no. 3)The étude is played at a gentle, brisk allegretto tempo and features constant octave hand jumps between intervals larger than one octave, sometimes even stretching for two whole octaves within the time of a sixteenth note.
Quadrangularis Reversum, one of Partch's instruments featuring the 43-tone scale. The 43-tone scale is a just intonation scale with 43 pitches in each octave.It is based on an eleven-limit tonality diamond, similar to the seven-limit diamond previously devised by Max Friedrich Meyer [1] and refined by Harry Partch.
The Federation Bells Project commissioned the production of 2001 handbells by Anton Hassell and Neil McLachlan, as well as a permanent public installation now known as the Federation Bells at Birrarung Marr, near Melbourne's Federation Square, and a set of orchestral harmonic bells for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Kerry describes the ...
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 .