metallophone
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me·tal·lo·phone
(mĭ-tăl'ə-fōn') 
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A percussion instrument consisting of a graduated series of metal bars struck with either hand-held or keyboard-controlled hammers.
n.
A percussion instrument consisting of a graduated series of metal bars struck with either hand-held or keyboard-controlled hammers.
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Metallophone
Generic term for percussion instruments that consist of a series of tuned metal bars arranged in a single or double row. Instruments made of metal slabs were known in China by ad 700, and bronze slabs appeared in Japan in the 9th century. Such instruments have distinctive roles in the Gamelan ensemble. Far Eastern metallophones have influenced certain Western orchestral percussion instruments such as the glockenspiel and vibraphone.
In modern compositions ‘metallophone’ is applied to a row of alloy bars suspended over a resonance box. Carl Orff scored for them; in a simple form metallophones are included in school percussion groups.
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- Percussion - metallophone: set of graduated metal bars over resonating box, struck with mallet
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Metallophone
A metallophone is any musical instrument consisting of tuned metal bars which are struck to make sound, usually with a mallet.
Metallophones have been used in music for thousands of years. There are several different types used in Balinese and Javanese gamelan ensembles, including the gendér, gangsa and saron. These instruments have a single row of bars, tuned to the distinctive pelog or slendro scales, or a subset of them. The Western glockenspiel and vibraphone are also metallophones: they have two rows of bars, in an imitation of the piano keyboard, and are tuned to the chromatic scale.
In music of the 20th century and beyond, the word metallophone is sometimes applied specifically to a single row of metal bars suspended over a resonator box. Metallophones tuned to the diatonic scale are often used in schools; Carl Orff used diatonic metallophones in several of his pieces, including his pedagogical Schulwerk. Metallophones with microtonal tunings are used in Iannis Xenakis' Pléïades and in the music of Harry Partch.
List of metallophones
- Celesta
- Fangxiang
- Gangsa
- Gendér
- Glockenspiel
- Jegogan
- Jublag
- Kulintang a Tiniok/Sarunay
- Ranat ek lek
- Ranat thum lek
- Roneat dek
- Roneat thong
- Saron
- Slentem
- Steel marimbaphone
- Ugal
- Vibraphone
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