Biology:Tubaphone

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Tubaphone
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. 
  • An excerpt from Porgy and Bess played on a tubaphone