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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 ...
111.212 Sets of percussion sticks in a range of different pitches combined into one instrument. - All xylophones, as long as their sounding components are not in two different planes. Balafon; Gandingan a kayo; Glasschord; Glass Marimba; Kulintang a kayo; Luntang or kwintangan kayo; Marimba; Marimbaphone (also bowed) Pong lang; Xylophone; Xylorimba
(The xylophone has wooden bars, unlike the glockenspiel which has metal bars.) [3] The Pixiphone, a type of toy glockenspiel, was one such instrument sold as a xylophone. Range [ edit ]
There is no standard range of the marimba, but the most common ranges are 4.3 octaves, 4.5 octaves and 5 octaves; 4, 4.6 and 5.5 octave sizes are also available. 4 octave: C 3 to C 7. 4.3 octave: A 2 to C 7. The .3 refers to three semitones below the 4 octave instrument. This is the most common range. 4.5 octave: F 2 to C 7. The .5 means "half";
111.212 Sets of percussion sticks in a range of different pitches combined into one instrument. – All xylophones, as long as their sounding components are not in two different planes. 111.22 Percussion plaques. 111.221 Individual percussion plaques. 111.222 Sets of percussion plaques – Examples are the lithophone and also most metallophones.
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.
In addition to voice, a range of instruments are used, including the Amadinda, the Akadinda xylophones, the Ennanga harp, the Etongoli lyre, drums, and the Kadongo (plural "budongo") lamellophone. Amadinda, akadinda, ennanga, and entongoli, as well as several types of drums, are used in the courtly music of the Kabaka, the king of Buganda. The ...
111.212 Sets of percussion sticks in a range of different pitches combined into one instrument, such as a xylophone provided its sounding components are not in two different planes; 111.22 Percussion plaques 111.222 Sets of percussion plaques, such as the lithophone; 111.23 Percussion tubes 111.232 Sets of percussion tubes, such as tubular bells