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In the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, a form of glockenspiel is called a bell lyre, bell lyra, or lyra-glockenspiel. [11] The bell lyre is a form of glockenspiel commonly used in marching bands. [12] One variation is played vertically and has an extendable spike that is held on a strap.
A rest is the absence of a sound for a defined period of time in music, or one of the musical notation signs used to indicate that. The length of a rest corresponds with that of a particular note value, thus indicating how long the silence should last. Each type of rest is named for the note value it corresponds with (e.g. quarter note and ...
When this cymbal is struck with a beater (most usually a soft beater), it produces a myriad of sounds with no single overruling note. One can distinguish the two by ear by following a simple method. A gong sounds like a slightly muffled church bell , producing a soft but clear note, whereas the tam-tam sounds much more like a large metal object ...
The Pixiphone was a range of toy glockenspiels (although they were inaccurately labelled as xylophones on their packaging). The larger Pixiphones had a 'raiser-bar' which could be used to end a note abruptly, rather than letting the sound fade naturally.
Performance by Kroumata of Drumming at the Stockholm Concert Hall, May 2007. Drumming is a piece by minimalist composer Steve Reich, dating from 1970–1971. [1] Reich began composition of the work after a short visit to Ghana and observing music and musical ensembles there, especially under the Anlo Ewe master drummer Gideon Alorwoyie.
The keyboard glockenspiel (French: jeu de timbre) or organ glockenspiel [clarification needed] is an instrument consisting of a glockenspiel operated by a piano keyboard.
The note C 4 written down produces: Comment Accordion: D ♭ piano accordion D ♭ 4: Bass accordion: C 2: Arpeggione: C 2 /C 3: Bagpipe Great Highland bagpipe: variable D ♭ 4 - D 4: A minority of bagpipes, made for playing with other instruments, are exactly D ♭ 4 (referred to as B ♭, relative to the tonic note A rather than C).
Similarly, with irregular time signatures, rests should not span more than one major beat. For example, a 5/8 bar (five quavers per bar) has a 3+2 pattern, starting with a crochet note and ending with a quaver note is not written crochet note, crochet rest, quaver note, but crochet note, quaver rest, quaver rest, quaver note