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Find sources: "Metallophone" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) A metallophone used in a [Gamelan](/source/Gamelan)—Indonesian Embassy in Canberra A **metallophone** is any [musical instrument](/source/Musical_instrument) in which the sound-producing body is a piece of metal (other than a metal string), such as tuned [metal](/source/Metal) bars, tubes, rods, bowls, or plates. Most frequently the metal body is struck to produce sound, usually with a [mallet](/source/Percussion_mallet), but may also be activated by friction, keyboard action, or other means.[1] Metallophones have been used in music in Asia for thousands of years. There are several different types used in [Balinese](/source/Bali) and [Javanese](/source/Java_(island)) [gamelan](/source/Gamelan) ensembles, including the [gendèr](/source/Gend%C3%A8r), [gangsa](/source/Gangsa) and [saron](/source/Saron_(instrument)). These instruments have a single row of bars, tuned to the distinctive [pelog](/source/Pelog) or [slendro](/source/Slendro) scales, or a subset of them. The Western [glockenspiel](/source/Glockenspiel) and [vibraphone](/source/Vibraphone) are also metallophones: they have two rows of bars, in an imitation of the [piano](/source/Piano) keyboard, and are tuned to the [chromatic scale](/source/Chromatic_scale). In music of the 20th century and beyond, the word *metallophone* is sometimes applied specifically to a single row of metal bars suspended over a resonator box. Metallophones tuned to the [diatonic scale](/source/Diatonic_scale) are often used in schools; [Carl Orff](/source/Carl_Orff) used diatonic metallophones in several of his pieces, including his pedagogical *[Schulwerk](/source/Schulwerk)*. Metallophones with [microtonal tunings](/source/Scale_(music)#Microtonal_scales) are used in [Iannis Xenakis](/source/Iannis_Xenakis)' *Pléïades* and in the music of [Harry Partch](/source/Harry_Partch). ## Classification Metallophones are a subset, made of metal, of [Hornbostel-Sachs](/source/Hornbostel-Sachs) category 111.22 Percussion plaques, which is a subset of [percussion idiophones](/source/Percussion_idiophone). ## List of metallophones [Kulintang a Tiniok](/source/Kulintang_a_Tiniok): A [Philippine](/source/Philippines) metallophone - [Aluphone](/source/Aluphone) - [Bell](/source/Bell) - [Bell plate](/source/Bell_plate) - [Bonang](/source/Bonang) - [Cegléd water jug](/source/Cegl%C3%A9d_water_jug) - [Celesta](/source/Celesta) - [Chime bar](/source/Chime_bar) - [Cowbells](/source/Cowbell_(instrument)) - [Crotales](/source/Crotales) - [Dulcitone](/source/Dulcitone) - [Fangxiang](/source/Fangxiang) - [Gangsa](/source/Gangsa) - [Geger](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geger&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Gendèr](/source/Gend%C3%A8r) - [Glockenspiel](/source/Glockenspiel) - [Gong](/source/Gong) - [Hand bells](/source/Hand_bells) - [Handpan](/source/Handpan) - [Jegogan](/source/Jegogan) - [Jublag](/source/Jublag) - [Kulintang a Tiniok](/source/Kulintang_a_Tiniok)/[Sarunay](/source/Sarunay) - [Mark tree](/source/Mark_tree) - [Orff metallophones](/source/Orff_Schulwerk) - [Ranat ek lek](/source/Ranat_ek_lek) - [Ranat thum lek](/source/Ranat_thum_lek) - [Rhodes piano](/source/Rhodes_piano) - [Roneat dek](/source/Roneat_dek) - [Roneat thong](/source/Roneat_thong) - [Saron](/source/Saron_(instrument)) - [Slentem](/source/Slentem) - Step bell - [Steel marimbaphone](/source/Marimbaphone) - [Ugal](/source/Ugal) - [Steel drum](/source/Steel_drum) - [Tam-tam](/source/Tam-tam) - [Toy piano](/source/Toy_piano) - [Triangle](/source/Triangle_(musical_instrument)) - [Tubaphone](/source/Tubaphone) - [Tubular bells](/source/Tubular_bells) - [Vibraphone](/source/Vibraphone) - [Waterphone](/source/Waterphone) ## See also - [Aerophone](/source/Aerophone) - [Lithophone](/source/Lithophone) - [Xylophone](/source/Xylophone) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Holland, James (2003). [*Practical Percussion: A Guide to the Instruments and Their Sources*](https://books.google.com/books?id=vMq9ZNZQMNwC&dq=%22egg%20shaker%22%20percussion%20instrument&pg=PP1). Lanham, Maryland, US: Scarecrow Press. p. 35. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8108-5658-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-5658-5). Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Metallophones](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Metallophones). Authority control databases International GND Other MusicBrainz instrument Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Metallophone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallophone) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallophone?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.