Keyboard percussion instrument

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A keyboard percussion instrument, also known as a bar or mallet percussion instrument,

is a pitched percussion instrument arranged in a similar pattern to a piano keyboard and
played with hands or percussion mallets.[1] While most keyboard percussion instruments are
fully chromatic, keyboard instruments for children, such as ones used in the Orff Schulwerk,
may be diatonic or pentatonic.

Despite the name, keyboard instruments such as the celesta and keyboard glockenspiel are not
considered keyboard percussion, owing to the different skills required to play them. These
instruments are percussion instruments in most senses but are part of the keyboard section
rather than the percussion section of an orchestra. Keyboard percussion instruments do not
possess keyboards as such, but instead follow the arrangement of the keyboard.

Keyboard percussion instruments include marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, glockenspiel, and

tubular bells.[2]

Current Manufacturers
• Yamaha Percussion[3]
• Adams Musical Instruments[4]
• Majestic Percussion[5]
• Premier Percussion
• Musser Mallet Company[6]

See also
• Classification of percussion instruments

References
1.

• Strain, James Allen (2017). A Dictionary for the Modern Percussionist and Drummer.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8108-8693-3.
OCLC 974035735.
• • http://www.pas.org/Libraries/PASIC_Archives/ChandlerNorton97.sflb.ashx Archived
2011-04-17 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 6 March 2012: The standard keyboard
percussion family of instruments includes the marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, orchestra
bells (glockenspiel), and chimes (tubular bells).
• • "Vibraphones". Yamaha. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
• • "Vibraphone". Ittervoort, Netherlands: Adams Musical Instruments. Retrieved 2016-01-
23.
• • "Majestic Concert Vibraphone". Majestic Holland B.V. Retrieved 2016-01-23.

6. • "Vibraphones". Musser Mallet Percussion. Conn-Selmer, Inc. Retrieved 2016-01-

23.

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