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What are the tubes under a xylophone used for?
The tubes are used as resonators.
What instrument is Long metal tubes played with hammer?
A xylophone, if it's large enough
What is the difference between a xylophone and a marimba?
While they are both percussion instruments, the piano has keys that you hit with your fingers attached to hammers which hit strings inside the piano, and the xylophone has different pitched metal or wooden strips that you strike with a mallet. They produce very different sounds and a piano has many more keys than most xylophones.
What musical instrument is hit with hammers?
The Marimba a sort of resonating Xylophone. the Vibraharp is simlar but uses metalllic plates.(which are struck by hand-held mallets) Thye Four-mallet style is the most common, they have a neat jazz sound . Rarely used in C&W, but definitely acoustic. They harmonize well with Steel Guitars and like the"steels, loend themselves well to tonal special effects of an ethereal, detached , or even science-fictional backdrop.l
How many bars on a xylophone?
The xylophone is a percussion instrument consisting of a row of bars of graduating lengths suspended over metal tubes, called resonators, and set in a wooden or steel frame. As on a piano, the playing structure of the xylophone is called a "keyboard." The musician plays the instrument by striking the "keys" (bars) with phenolic (resin), plastic or rubber mallets.If your 'xylophone' has 'steel' bars, it might, instead, be a mellophone.The word "xylophone" comes from the Greek "xylon" (wood) and "phone" (voice); the literal translation is "wooden sound." For this reason, classic western xylophones have rosewood keyboards (some modern western xylophones and student-quality instruments have synthetic or fiberglass-coated plastic keys) of 2.5 - 4.0 octaves, which means the number of "bars" on the keyboard varies. An octave consists of 8 notes (keys), so a 2.5 octave keyboard will have 20 keys, while a 4.0 octave keyboard will have 32. Concert xylophones are typically 3.5 to 4.0 octaves.The Glockenspiel (sometimes called bells), looks a lot like a xylophone, but uses steel bars instead of wood, and produces a brighter sound. A glockenspiel has 30 keys, set in two rows.
