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
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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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
Xylophone
…the Pixiphone and many similar toys described by the makers as xylophones have bars of metal rather than of wood, and so are in organology regarded as glockenspiels rather than as xylophones. The modern western xylophone has bars of rosewood, padauk, cocobolo, or various synthetic materials such as fiberglass or…
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