Melodic percussion instrument
Handbells set in performance
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Steel drums
Vibraphone and mallets
Asian traditional instrument
A melodic percussion instrument is a percussion instrument used to produce several different notes of different pitches.[1] Melodic percussion instruments are examples of pitched percussion and include mallet percussion and keyboard percussion.
Melodic percussion instruments take one of three main forms:
- Collections of individual pitched percussion instruments in different pitches, such as hand bells and the angklung.
- Instruments that produce different pitches when struck in different places, such as the steel drum.[2]
- Instruments that contain a collection of sounding objects tuned to different notes, such as the xylophone.
Many melodic percussion instruments have resonators, providing a second way of classifying them:
- Some instruments such as the marimba have an individual resonator for each note.
- Some instruments such as the hang have a resonator shared by several or all notes.
- Some instruments such as the glockenspiel have no resonator.
List of percussion instruments that produce musical scales
- Balaphone
- Carillon
- Gambang
- Ghata tarang - set of ghatams
- Gendér
- Glass harp
- Glockenspiel
- Handbells set
- Hang
- Kulintang
- Kulintang a tiniok
- Jal tarang
- Loh tarang
- Marimba
- Pat waing
- Skrabalai
- Steelpan
- Tank drum
- Tongue drum
- Tabla tarang
- Tubaphone
- Tubular bells
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
See also
References
- ↑ Blades, James. Percussion Instruments and their History (London: Kahn & Averill, 2006) ISBN 978-0-933224-61-2
- ↑ http://www.musicaviva.com.au/vivazone/musicians/musician.asp?id=38 retrieved 6 March 2012 the steel drum, a melodic percussion instrument from Trinidad and Tobago
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