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MUSIC
Percussion TUBULAR BELLS

instruments

Tube struck
PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS are a large group with mallet
of instruments that produce sound by being
struck, shaken, scraped, or clashed together.
Most percussion instruments—such as the Hollow,
tam-tam (gong), cymbals, and maracas—do metal tube
not have a definite pitch and are used for
TEMPLE BLOCKS rhythm and impact, and the distinctive
timber (color) of their sound. Other percussion instruments— Damper
such as the xylophone, vibraphone, and tubular bells—are tuned bar
to a definite pitch and can play melody, harmony, and rhythms.
The xylophone and vibraphone each have two rows of bars that
are arranged in a similar way to the black and white keys of a Metal
piano. Metal tubes are suspended below the bars to amplify the frame
sound. The vibraphone has electrically operated fans that rotate
in the tubes and produce a vibrato (wavering pitch) effect.
Mechanism
linking pedal
EXAMPLES OF BEATERS and damper
bar

Row of tubes
SOFT-HEADED BEATER Fell-covered head graduated in
length and pitch Damper pedal
Rosewood head
TAM-TAM (GONG)
HARD-HEADED BEATER Tam-tam struck in Cord
center with soft-
headed beater
Leather-covered head Metal
frame
MALLET
Row of bars graduated XYLOPHONE
in length and pitch

Wooden bar
struck with hard-
headed beater
Hollow,
metal tube
Rim Large,
Metal stand metal disk

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