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Metallophone

A metallophone is any musical instrument

Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
consisting of tuned metal

Metal

In chemistry, a metal is a chemical element whose atoms readily lose electrons to form positive ions , and form metallic bonds between other metal atoms and ionic bonds between nonmetal atoms....
bars which are struck to make sound, usually with a mallet

Drum stick

A mallet or drum stick is an object used to strike drums and other percussion_instrument to produce sound. Some specialized mallets are called beaters, drumsticks, or brushes....
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Metallophones have been used in music for hundreds of years. Even though there are several different types used in Bali

Bali

Bali is an Indonesian island located at , the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 Provinces of Indonesia with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island....
nese and Javanese gamelan

Gamelan

File:Javanese Gamelan.jpgA gamelan is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings....
ensembles, including the gendér

Gender

Gender comprises a range of differences between man and woman, extending from the biological to the social. Biologically, the male gender is defined by the presence of a Y-chromosome, and its absence in the female gender....
, gangsa

Gangsa

A gangsa is a type of metallophone which is used in Balinese and Javanese Gamelan music. It consists of several, tuned metal bars which are hit with a mallet and each make a note of a different pitch....
and saron

Saron (instrument)

The saron is a musical instrument of Indonesia, which is used in the gamelan. It typically consists of seven bronze bars placed on top of a resonating frame ....
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A metallophone is any musical instrument

Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
consisting of tuned metal

Metal

Drum stick

Bali

Gamelan

Gender

Gangsa

Saron (instrument)

The saron is a musical instrument of Indonesia, which is used in the gamelan. It typically consists of seven bronze bars placed on top of a resonating frame ....
. These instruments have a single row of bars, tuned to the distinctive pelog

Pelog

Pelog is one of the two essential scales of gamelan music native to Bali and Java , in Indonesia. The other scale commonly used is called slendro....
or slendro

Slendro

Slendro is a pentatonic scale , one of the two most common scales used in Indonesian gamelan music, the other being p?log....
scales, or a subset of them. The Western glockenspiel

Glockenspiel

File:Glockenspiel-malletech.jpgFile:GlockenspielSousaphone.jpgThe glockenspiel is a musical instrument in the percussion instrument family....
and vibraphone

Vibraphone

The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the mallet subfamily of the percussion instrument family....
are also metallophones: they have two rows of bars, in an imitation of the piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
keyboard, and are tuned to the chromatic scale

Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve Pitch es, each a semitone or half step apart. "A chromatic scale is a diatonic scale consisting entirely of half-step interval ," having, "no tonic ," due to the symmetry or equal spacing of its tones....
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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

Diatonic scale

In music theory, a diatonic scale is a seven note musical scale comprising five whole steps and two half steps, in which the half steps are maximally separated....
are often used in schools; Carl Orff

Carl Orff

Carl Orff was a 20th-century Germany composer, most famous for his composition Carmina Burana . He has also become very influential in the field of music education for his pedagogy methods, which survive through Orff Schulwerk....
used diatonic metallophones in several of his pieces, including his pedagogical Schulwerk. Metallophones with microtonal tunings are used in Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis was a Greeks modernist composer, musical theoretician, and architect. He is regarded as an important and influential composer of the twentieth century....
' Pléïades and in the music of Harry Partch

Harry Partch

File:Harry Partch Institute-6.jpgHarry Partch was an United Statesn composer and musical instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonality scale s, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation....
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List of metallophones

Celesta
Celesta

The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard instrument. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box ....
Fangxiang
Fangxiang

The fangxiang is an ancient Chinese music metallophone. The instrument consists of 16 tuned rectangular iron slabs laid in a frame in two rows....
Gangsa
Gangsa

A gangsa is a type of metallophone which is used in Balinese and Javanese Gamelan music. It consists of several, tuned metal bars which are hit with a mallet and each make a note of a different pitch....
Gendér
Gender

Gender comprises a range of differences between man and woman, extending from the biological to the social. Biologically, the male gender is defined by the presence of a Y-chromosome, and its absence in the female gender....
Glockenspiel
Glockenspiel

File:Glockenspiel-malletech.jpgFile:GlockenspielSousaphone.jpgThe glockenspiel is a musical instrument in the percussion instrument family....
Jegogan
Jublag
Kulintang a Tiniok
Kulintang a Tiniok

Also called kulintang a putao , sarunay, salunay, salonay, saronay, saronai, sarunai The kulintang a tiniok is a type of Philippine metallophone with eight tuned knobbed metal plates strung together via string atop a wooden antangan ....
/Sarunay
Ranat ek lek
Ranat ek lek

The ranat ek lek is a metallophone used in the Music of Thailand. It is the smaller of the two sizes of Thailand metallophone; the larger one is called ranat thum lek....
Ranat thum lek
Ranat thum lek

The ranat thum lek is a metallophone used in the Music of Thailand. It is the larger of the two sizes of Thailand metallophone; the smaller one is called ranat ek lek....
Roneat dek
Roneat thong
Saron
Saron (instrument)

The saron is a musical instrument of Indonesia, which is used in the gamelan. It typically consists of seven bronze bars placed on top of a resonating frame ....
Slentem
Steel marimbaphone
Marimbaphone

The marimbaphone is a tuned percussion instrument. It was developed by the Deagan company of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. in the early 20th century....
Ugal
Ugal

An ugal is an instrument in an Indonesian gamelan orchestra. It is a bronze metallophone played one handed with a small hammer, often in a dance-like manner....
Vibraphone
Vibraphone

The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the mallet subfamily of the percussion instrument family....