tubaphone
A tubaphone is a type of metallophone constructed from a series of metal tubes arranged in a keyboard configuration. The tubes are similar in length to that of a xylophone, and sound vaguely like a glockenspiel.
Also recorded as tubuphone
tubaphone
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- Tubaphone
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- set of percussion tubes
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• Name — Tubaphone • Names — * Tubaphon • Tubophone • Tubuscampanophon • Background — percussion • Classification — Keyboard percussion • Hornbostel Sachs — 111.232 • Hornbostel Sachs Desc — Sets of percussion tubes • Range — C 6 –C 8 • Builders — * J.C. Deagan Company
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- 1.Routledge. Encyclopedia of Percussion. 97. 2014. 978-0-4159-7123-2.
- 2.Rossing, Thomas D. Science of Percussion Instruments. World Scientific. 74. 2000. 978-9-8102-4158-2.
- 3.Peinkofer, Karl. Handbook of Percussion Instruments. Schott Music. 71. 1976. 2215857.
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