chime bar
Illustration — A set of nine chime bars, tuned diatonically A chime bar or resonator bell is a percussion instrument consisting of a tuned metal bar similar to a glockenspiel bar, with each bar mounted on its own wooden resonator. Chime bars are played with mallets again similar to a glockenspiel. The sound is similar to a glockenspiel, but with much more sustain, similar in this respect to a vibraphone but without the vibrato.
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Illustration — A set of nine chime bars, tuned diatonically A chime bar or resonator bell is a percussion instrument consisting of a tuned metal bar similar to a glockenspiel bar, with each bar mounted on its own wooden resonator. Chime bars are played with mallets again similar to a glockenspiel. The sound is similar to a glockenspiel, but with much more sustain, similar in this respect to a vibraphone but without the vibrato.
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Chime bars can be arranged on a table to be played by a single player, or played by a group in a similar fashion to handbells, with each member holding a chime in one hand and a mallet in the other. They are used from professional music to classrooms.
Chime bar is a percussion plaque.
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- 1.Jerry Storms. 101 More Music Games for Children: New Fun and Learning with Rhythm and Song. Hunter House. 23–. 1 December 2001. 978-0-89793-298-1.
- 2.Studio 49 Individual Chime Bar C52-A73: Amazon.co.uk: Musical Instruments. Amazon.co.uk.
- 3.Paytons - Chime Bars. Paytons.com.au.
- 4.Chime bars- (Metal) - Classroom Percussion.
- 5.LP Concert Series Bar Chimes - 25 Bars.
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