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Song bells are a musical instrument in the keyboard percussion family. They are a mallet percussion instrument in the metallophone family that is essentially a cross between the vibraphone, glockenspiel, and celesta. They have bars made of aluminum. [1]
A catalog documenting the Collection's holdings was published in 1918 [5] by Albert A. Stanley, with a second edition published in 1921. [6] In 1988, Professor James M. Borders published a catalog featuring the Collection's European and American wind and percussion instruments. [7]
Some bells are used as musical instruments, such as carillons, (clock) chimes, agogô, or ensembles of bell-players, called bell choirs, using hand-held bells of varying tones. [ c ] A "ring of bells" is a set of four to twelve or more bells used in change ringing , a particular method of ringing bells in patterns.
Each bell is a metal tube, 30–38 mm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter, tuned by altering its length. Its standard range is C 4 –F 5, though many professional instruments reach G 5. Tubular bells are often replaced by studio chimes, which are smaller and usually less expensive instruments.
Eight-bell chime in its frame (McShane Bell Foundry, Maryland).Note that the bottom bells are static-chimes, and the top bell is also hung for swing-chiming on its own. A chime (/ ˈ t ʃ aɪ m /) or set of chimes is a carillon-like instrument, i.e. a pitched percussion instrument consisting of 22 or fewer bells.
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The Boston Musical Instrument Manufactury/Company was a producer of traditional instruments for brass band. The 1869 catalog shows a full line of such instruments including the traditional cornets in E-flat and B-flat, E-flat Alto horn and horn, B-flat tenor, B-flat baritone, B-flat valve trombone and slide trombone, and tubas in B-flat and E ...