{{Short description|Musical instrument in which the sound-producing body is a piece of metal}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2024}} [[File:Traditional_indonesian_instruments.jpg|thumb|250px|A metallophone used in a [[Gamelan]]—Indonesian Embassy in Canberra]] A '''metallophone''' is any [[musical instrument]] in which the sound-producing body is a piece of metal (other than a metal string), such as tuned [[metal]] bars, tubes, rods, bowls, or plates. Most frequently the metal body is struck to produce sound, usually with a [[percussion mallet|mallet]], but may also be activated by friction, keyboard action, or other means.<ref>{{cite book |last=Holland |first=James |title=Practical Percussion: A Guide to the Instruments and Their Sources |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2003 |location=Lanham, Maryland, US |isbn=978-0-8108-5658-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vMq9ZNZQMNwC&dq=%22egg%20shaker%22%20percussion%20instrument&pg=PP1 |page=35}}</ref>
Metallophones have been used in music in Asia for thousands of years. There are several different types used in [[Bali]]nese and [[Java (island)|Java]]nese [[gamelan]] ensembles, including the [[gendèr]], [[gangsa]] and [[saron (instrument)|saron]]. These instruments have a single row of bars, tuned to the distinctive [[pelog]] or [[slendro]] scales, or a subset of them. The Western [[glockenspiel]] and [[vibraphone]] are also metallophones: they have two rows of bars, in an imitation of the [[piano]] keyboard, and are tuned to the [[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]] are often used in schools; [[Carl Orff]] used diatonic metallophones in several of his pieces, including his pedagogical ''[[Schulwerk]]''. Metallophones with [[scale (music)#Microtonal scales|microtonal tunings]] are used in [[Iannis Xenakis]]' ''Pléïades'' and in the music of [[Harry Partch]].
==Classification== Metallophones are a subset, made of metal, of [[Hornbostel-Sachs]] category 111.22 Percussion plaques, which is a subset of [[percussion idiophone]]s.
==List of metallophones==
[[File:Sarunay.jpg|thumb|[[Kulintang a Tiniok]]: A [[Philippines|Philippine]] metallophone]]
<!--Note: the xylophone is a type metallophone, as it has wooden bars, and "xyl-" means "wood," not metal, in Greek--> * [[Aluphone]] * [[Bell]] * [[Bell plate]] * [[Bonang]] * [[Cegléd water jug]] * [[Celesta]] * [[Chime bar]] * [[Cowbell (instrument)| Cowbells]] * [[Crotales]] * [[Dulcitone]] * [[Fangxiang]] * [[Gangsa]] * [[Geger]] * [[Gendèr]] * [[Glockenspiel]] * [[Gong]] * [[Hand bells]] * [[Handpan]] * [[Jegogan]] * [[Jublag]] * [[Kulintang a Tiniok]]/[[Sarunay]] * [[Mark tree]] * [[Orff Schulwerk|Orff metallophones]] * [[Ranat ek lek]] * [[Ranat thum lek]] * [[Rhodes piano]] * [[Roneat dek]] * [[Roneat thong]] * [[Saron (instrument)|Saron]] * [[Slentem]] * Step bell * [[Marimbaphone|Steel marimbaphone]]<!--listed as such because there was also a wooden marimbaphone produced--> * [[Ugal]] * [[Steel drum]] * [[Tam-tam]] * [[Toy piano]] * [[Triangle (musical instrument)| Triangle]] * [[Tubaphone]] * [[Tubular bells]] * [[Vibraphone]] * [[Waterphone]]
== See also == * [[Aerophone]] * [[Lithophone]] * [[Xylophone]]
==References== {{reflist}}
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{{Authority control}} [[Category:Keyboard percussion instruments]] [[Category:Percussion idiophones]]