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2. 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. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to ...

3. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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   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 Unpitched Membranophone

4. Orchestral percussion - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Keyboard glockenspiel - Wikipedia

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   The keyboard glockenspiel (French: jeu de timbre) or organ glockenspiel [clarification needed] is an instrument consisting of a glockenspiel operated by a piano keyboard.It was first used by George Frideric Handel in the oratorio Saul (1739).

6. Percussion section - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Lists of tuned and untuned percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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   This is a partitioned list of percussion instruments showing their usage as tuned or untuned. 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.