Biology:Tubaphone

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Tubaphone
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Percussion instrument
Other names
  • Tubaphon
  • Tubophone
  • Tubuscampanophon
Classification Keyboard percussion
Hornbostel–Sachs classification111.232
(Sets of percussion tubes)
Playing range
C6–C8
Builders
  • J.C. Deagan Company

A tubaphone is a type of metallophone constructed from a series of metal tubes arranged in a keyboard configuration.[1][2] The tubes are similar in length to that of a xylophone, and sound vaguely like a glockenspiel.[3]

References

  1. Beck, John H., ed (2014). Encyclopedia of Percussion (2nd ed.). Routledge. pp. 97. ISBN 9780415971232. OCLC 939052116. 
  2. Rossing, Thomas D. (2000). Science of Percussion Instruments. World Scientific. pp. 74. ISBN 9789810241582. OCLC 45679450. https://books.google.com/books?id=xqbNlVUsTU4C&dq=tubaphone&pg=PA74. 
  3. Peinkofer, Karl; Tannigel, Fritz (1976). Handbook of Percussion Instruments. Schott Music. pp. 71. OCLC 2215857. 

External links

  • An excerpt from Porgy and Bess played on a tubaphone