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  2. Keyboard percussion instrument - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Tony Miceli - Wikipedia

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    In the 1980s and early-1990s, Miceli toured extensively through Germany with the percussion group “Mallet Madness”. Featuring Miceli on vibraphone with Ron Von Strattun (drums), Bernd Zinzius (Bass) and Christoph Eidens (vibes and marimba), Mallet Madness played jazz versions of rock songs, in a trio reminiscent of the guitar trios of the 60's, with vibraphone replacing guitar as the ...

  4. Percussion mallet - Wikipedia

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    Mallet bag showing variety of mallets. A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound. The term beater is slightly more general. A mallet is normally held in the hand while a beater may be a foot or mechanically operated, for example in a bass drum pedal. The term drum stick is ...

  5. Lists of tuned and untuned percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    This group of instruments includes all keyboard percussion and mallet percussion instruments and nearly all melodic percussion instruments. Those three groups are themselves overlapping, having many instruments in common. Angklung [1] Celesta [2] Chime bar; Cup chime [3] Glockenspiel; Hand chime; Marimba; Metallophone; Piano; Steel pan; Tubular ...

  6. 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.

  7. Marimba - Wikipedia

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    The marimba (/ m ə ˈ r ɪ m b ə / mə-RIM-bə) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound.

  8. Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ - Wikipedia

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    The decision to double organ and women's voices was made by Reich after several months of experimentation. First he tried doubling four wind instruments with two men's and two women's voices. One attempt along this line was made with two bass clarinets and two clarinets; another involved bass trombone, trombone, flugelhorn, and trumpet. He ...

  9. Flapamba - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, Richards decided to extend the lower range of the instrument. Specialty mallet craftsman Chris Banta made new bars spanning F 2 to C 4 and dubbed this the "bass flapamba". He also replaced the bars on the original set to create a consistent sound between the two. Both sets combined have a range from F 2 to C 6.