The glockenspiel is a Musical instrument with percussion of the family of the Idiophone S, composed of or sheet metal put in vibration using a mallet keyboard.

the German word glockenspiel means Carillon (meaning literally: " play of cloches") - this instrument being in the beginning made up of Bell ttes.

The glockenspiel is built like a Xylophone, but the use of metal blades gives him a clear sonority pointing out that of a chime. The Musician striking using mallets or of rods, out of wooden or rubber, according to required sonority.

The set of blades makes it possible to cover two to three octave S of the chromatic range. Its acute register and its stamp brilliance make that there remains perceptible in the middle of a Symphony orchestra.

The glockenspiel is used in the traditional works for contemporary Orchestre and . A famous example of use of the glockenspiel - often materialized as chime is in the opera the Magic Flute of Mozart.

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