Tubular Chime
The tubular chime - also called tubular bell or bells of orchestra , of beautiful English tubular - is a Musical instrument Idiophone of the family of the percussion S.
It consists of a series of Cloche S. Each bell is a metal tube usually made Laiton, whose diameter varies between an inch a quarter and an inch and half, and agrees by modifying its length. The tubular chimes are usually gathered in a chromatic of a octave and half series. Series of two octaves exist, but they are extremely heavy and are not really used. Their extent is the following one:
The bells are usually struck by a hammer with head of plastic or of rawhide One can also employ various types of materials going of the Mailloche (as for the Tam-tam or the Grosse case) to the rods of drinking cups, out of wood, skin or foam. The bells are struck in their high part, which often requires a chair or, in the case of Musicien S of small size, a lifting platform.
They were invented with a practical aim to reproduce within a Symphony orchestra the sound of bells of church while circumventing the problem arising from the obstruction of such bells which are extremely heavy: the percussionnist has here a single instrument of approximately two meters height and a meter of width, with which it can play 17 notes (for a standard play of tubular bells).
They are used in symphonic works such as the Fantastic Symphonie of Berlioz, walk Liberty Bell of Sousa, or the Ouverture 1812 of Tchaikovsky; but also in the popular music. Mike Oldfield used the tubular bells in its first album Tubular Bells ( tubular bells English ) in 1973, whose topic was taken again for the music of the film the Exorcist .
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