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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).
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.
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. [5]
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The sound is similar to a glockenspiel, but with much more sustain, similar in this respect to a vibraphone but without the vibrato. Chime bars can be arranged on a table to be played by a single player, or played by a group in a similar fashion to handbells , with each member holding a chime in one hand and a mallet in the other.
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The clock, with 43 bells and 32 life-size figures, was added during the completion of the Neues Rathaus (New Town Hall) in 1908. [2] Every day at 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. (as well as 5 p.m. from March to October) [3] the clock re-enacts two stories from Munich’s history from the 16th century, taking about 15 minutes.