Glockenspiel
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The glockenspiel or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the vibr
A glockenspiel made by Malletech
A glockenspiel made around 1910 in Leipzig, Germany
A Mardi Gras musician playing a horizontal bell lyre
A vertical bell lyre in use by the National Marching Band of the RAF Air Cadets
Xylophone
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The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or hepta
Glockenspiel
…the keyboard glockenspiel. In Italian, the term campanelli (lit. 'little bells') is used. The glockenspiel is sometimes erroneously referred to as a xylophone. (The xylophone has wooden bars, unlike the glockenspiel which has metal bars.) The Pixiphone, a type of toy glockenspiel, was one such instrument sold…
Xylophone with different types of mallets
Kulintang a Kayo, a Philippine xylophone
African Xylophone also known as Ogbongelenge by the Igbo tribe. AID Project
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