metallophone
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8.4
- noun
- /məˈtæl.əˌfoʊn/
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metalófono
- During music class, we learned how to produce different notes on the metallophone by hitting the bars with mallets.
- xylophone or metallophone
Examples
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Talcum powder dusted onto the bars of a xylophone or metallophone will also move, more subtly, when the bar is struck.
Academic text (2004) -
Instruments such as the gong and metallophone have a broader frequency field (including many harmonics).
Academic text (2009) -
Have students recreate the steel band sound using metallophones.
Academic text (2011) -
Typically, students play random notes on a mallet instrument such as a xylophone or a metallophone that has been "prepared" by the teacher.
Academic text (2000) -
In creating a rubric for metallophone playing, as in figure 6, teachers can initiate a discussion of behaviors that students have previously demonstrated and consider appropriate for this and similar activities.
Academic text (1999) -
5. Using soprano, alto, and bass metallophones, teach the class to play the Steelband Riff provided (see Figure 4).
Academic text (2011) -
Assign multiple students to each metallophone as room allows, giving each student two mallets and a note derived from either the pentatonic scale or the tonic triad.
Academic text (2011) -
The children were excited to play music together using the metallophone in their school band.
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For the concert, each student took turns striking the metal bars of their metallophone to create beautiful melodies.
Synonyms
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8.2
A musical instrument with metal bars you play with small hammers that makes a bright sound
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3.3
A thing you hit, shake, or scrape to make sound in music
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9.1
A musical instrument like a xylophone with metal bars that make a soft ringing sound when they vibrate
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9.9
A musical instrument, like a bell or cymbal, that makes sound by vibrating its own body
A set of metal bars on a frame played with small hammers to make clear, ringing sounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Metallophone is made from metal ('metal') and -phone ('sound'), the same -phone you see in telephone. So a metallophone is an instrument that makes bright, ringing sounds when you hit metal bars.