Melodic percussion instrument

Handbells set in performance

Anklung

Steel drums

Vibraphone and mallets

Asian traditional instrument

A melodic percussion instrument is a percussion instrument used to produce several different notes of different pitches.^[1] Melodic percussion instruments are examples of pitched percussion and include mallet percussion and keyboard percussion.

Melodic percussion instruments take one of three main forms:

• Collections of individual pitched percussion instruments in different pitches, such as hand bells and the angklung.
• Instruments that produce different pitches when struck in different places, such as the steel drum.^[2]
• Instruments that contain a collection of sounding objects tuned to different notes, such as the xylophone.

Many melodic percussion instruments have resonators, providing a second way of classifying them:

• Some instruments such as the marimba have an individual resonator for each note.
• Some instruments such as the hang have a resonator shared by several or all notes.
• Some instruments such as the glockenspiel have no resonator.

List of percussion instruments that produce musical scales

• Balaphone
• Carillon
• Gambang
• Ghata tarang - set of ghatams
• Gendér
• Glass harp
• Glockenspiel
• Handbells set
• Hang
• Kulintang
• Kulintang a tiniok
• Jal tarang
• Loh tarang
• Marimba
• Pat waing
• Skrabalai
• Steelpan
• Tank drum
• Tongue drum
• Tabla tarang
• Tubaphone
• Tubular bells
• Vibraphone
• Xylophone

See also

• Pitched percussion
• Mallet percussion
• Keyboard percussion

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