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2. Xylophone - Wikipedia

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   See media help. The xylophone (from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon) 'wood' and φωνή (phōnḗ) 'sound, voice'; [ 1 ][ 2 ]lit.'sound of wood') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned ...

3. Balafon - Wikipedia

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   The balafon (pronounced / ˈ b æ l ə f ɒ n /, or, by analogy with xylophone etc., / ˈ b æ l ə f oʊ n /) is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone. It is closely associated with the neighbouring Mandé, Bwaba Bobo, Senoufo and Gur peoples of West Africa, particularly the Guinean branch of the Mandinka ethnic group, but is now found across West Africa from Guinea, Burkina ...

4. Pattala - Wikipedia

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   Pattala. The pattala ( Burmese: ပတ္တလား patta.la:, Burmese pronunciation: [pattəlá]; Mon: ဗာတ် ကလာ) is a Burmese xylophone, consisting of 24 bamboo slats called ywet ( ရွက်) or asan ( အဆံ) suspended over a boat-shaped resonating chamber. [ 1][ 2] It is played with two padded mallets. [ 1][ 2] The ...

5. Roneat ek - Wikipedia

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   Taken by Emile Gsell. The Roneat Ek or Roneat Aek ( Khmer: រនាតឯក; also called Roneat Rut) is a xylophone used in the Khmer classical music of Cambodia. It is built in the shape of a curved, rectangular shaped boat. It has twenty-one thick bamboo or hard wood bars that are suspended from strings attached to the two walls.

6. Musical Stones of Skiddaw - Wikipedia

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   Musical Stones of Skiddaw. The Musical Stones of Skiddaw are a number of lithophones built across two centuries around the town of Keswick, northern England, using hornfels, a stone from the nearby Skiddaw mountain, which is said to have a superior tone and longer ring than the more commonly used slate . [1]

7. Lithophone - Wikipedia

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   Lithophone. A lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes. [1] Notes may be sounded in combination (producing harmony) or in succession (melody). It is an idiophone comparable to instruments such as the glockenspiel, vibraphone, xylophone and marimba .

8. Kulintang a kayo - Wikipedia

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   Kulintang a kayo. The kulintang a kayo (literally, “wooden kulintang ”) is a Philippine xylophone of the Maguindanaon people with eight tuned slabs strung horizontally atop a padded wooden antangan (rack). Made of hand-carved soft wood such as bayug (genus Pterospermum) or more likely tamnag (genus unknown), the kulintang a kayo is rarely ...

9. Luntang - Wikipedia

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   Luntang. The luntang is a type of Philippine xylophone of the Maguindanaon people, strung vertically, with five horizontal logs hung in ascending order arranged by pitch. The Maguindanaon refer to this instrument as a luntang while the Yakan call it a kwintangan kayo. The cylindrical logs are beaten at the edge to create sounds and can be ...