
Tuned Percussion Instruments
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6th - 12th Grade
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Michelle Collison
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Tuned Percussion Instruments
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Tuned Percussion Instruments
are percussion instruments that make sounds of definite pitch. These instruments that are not as plentiful as the untuned variety, are found mainly in the orchestra.
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Glockenspeil
instrument with metal bars laid out like a keyboard and struck with hard wooden or rubber mallets (sometimes called orchestral bells)
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Xylophone
similar to the glockenspiel but with wooden bars
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Did you know...
xylo means 'wood' and phone means 'voice', therefore; xylophone translates to
Wood Voice
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Vibraphone
instrument like a large mellow glockenspiel with suspended resonating tubes under the bars that are constantly opened and closed electronically to give a vibrating effect
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Tubular Bells
suspended steel tubes of different lengths struck with a hard or soft mallet to produce church-bell sounds (also called Chimes)
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Celeste
small piano-shaped instrument whose sounds are made by metal hammers striking metal bars
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Timpani
large copper-bodied drums struck with padded mallets whose pitch can be changed by foot pedals (also called Kettle Drums)
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