"electronic means (synthesizer), or in some other way. Sometimes, instruments that do not usually have a keyboard, such as the ""glockenspiel"", are fitted with one. Though they have no moving parts and are struck by mallets held in the player's hands, they have the same physical arrangement of keys and produce soundwaves in a similar manner. The theremin, an electrophone, is played without physical contact by the player. Musical instrument A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that"
"Glockenspiel A glockenspiel ( or , ""Glocken"": bells and ""Spiel"": set) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, thus making it a metallophone. The glockenspiel, moreover, is usually smaller and higher in pitch. In German, a carillon is also called a ""Glockenspiel"", while in French, the glockenspiel is often called a ""carillon"". In music scores the glockenspiel is sometimes designated by"
"Parsifal bell A Parsifal bell (German: ""Parsifal Klavier Instrument"") is a stringed musical instrument designed as a substitute for the church bells that are called for in the score of Richard Wagner's opera ""Parsifal"". The instrument was designed by Felix Mottl, a conductor of Wagner's works, and constructed by Schweisgut, of Karlsruhe, Germany. It is constructed on the principle of the grand piano. A massive frame is shaped like a snooker table. The instrument has five notes; each note has six strings (three are tuned to the fundamental pitch, and three an octave higher). The strings are struck by large"
"a ""Stahlspiel"" or ""Militär-Glockenspiel"". The all-percussion Drum and lyre corps in the Philippines uses this as a main instrument. Glockenspiel A glockenspiel ( or , ""Glocken"": bells and ""Spiel"": set) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, thus making it a metallophone. The glockenspiel, moreover, is usually smaller and higher in pitch. In German, a carillon is also called a ""Glockenspiel"","
"the bells were used on various types of animals, they are typically referred to as ""cowbells"" due to their extensive use with cattle. Tuned cowbells or Almglocken (their German name), sometimes known by the English translation alpine bells (also in German), typically refer to bulbous brass bells that are used to play music, sometimes as a novelty act or tourist attraction in the northern Alps, and sometimes in classical music, as in Richard Strauss's ""Alpine Symphony"". Since they are tuned differently, in order to distinguish individual animals, they can be collected ""from the pasture"" in random tunings, but commercial sets"
"Zimbelstern The Zimbelstern (Meaning ""Cymbal Star"" in German, also spelled Cymbelstern, Zymbelstern, or Cimbalstern) is a ""toy"" organ stop consisting of a metal or wooden star or wheel on which several small bells are mounted. When engaged, the star rotates, producing a continuous tinkling sound. It was common in northern Europe, Germany in particular, throughout the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. After about 1700, the bells were tuned to particular notes. The device is probably most effective as a foil to light Baroque counterpoint of an upbeat nature, or hymns registered using a bright principal chorus. In some Christian liturgical"
"Das Glockenspiel Das Glockenspiel (English: ""Carillon"" or ""chime of bells"") is the first single from the 1999 Schiller debut album Zeitgeist. It's the debut of Schiller and it was subtitled internationally with the title The Bell. The trance music single was officially released on 31 December 1998 in Germany and was peaking at number 21 on German Singles Chart in 1999 and on number 17 in the UK Singles Chart. The cover art work shows a graphic of a bell. The music video was shot in the United States. The single became famous for featuring a bell-like melody. The song's"
"German horn The German horn is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell, and in bands and orchestras is the most widely used of three types of horn, the other two being the French horn (in the less common, narrower meaning of the term) and the Vienna horn. Its use among professional players has become so universal that it is only in France and Vienna that any other kind of horn is used today. A musician who plays the German horn is called a horn player (or less frequently, a hornist). The word"
"the world (at Riverside Church in New York City) weighs over , whereas the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia weighs . The word ""carillon"" is from the French ""quadrillon"", meaning four bells. In German, a carillon is also called a ""Glockenspiel""; while the percussion instrument called a ""glockenspiel"" by English speakers is often called a ""carillon"" in French. In medieval times, swinging bells were first used as a way of notifying people of imminent church services, and for such as fires, storms, wars and other secular events. However, the use of bells to play melodic musical compositions originated in the 16th"
"traditions, it is rung during the singing of the Sanctus or on doxological stanzas of hymns. Zimbelstern The Zimbelstern (Meaning ""Cymbal Star"" in German, also spelled Cymbelstern, Zymbelstern, or Cimbalstern) is a ""toy"" organ stop consisting of a metal or wooden star or wheel on which several small bells are mounted. When engaged, the star rotates, producing a continuous tinkling sound. It was common in northern Europe, Germany in particular, throughout the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. After about 1700, the bells were tuned to particular notes. The device is probably most effective as a foil to light Baroque counterpoint"
"(1962), and György Ligeti (1982). German horn The German horn is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell, and in bands and orchestras is the most widely used of three types of horn, the other two being the French horn (in the less common, narrower meaning of the term) and the Vienna horn. Its use among professional players has become so universal that it is only in France and Vienna that any other kind of horn is used today. A musician who plays the German horn is called a horn player (or less"
"It shows also a ringing bell. The music video was shot in Chinatown in Los Angeles, California. The video was aired and became one of the most played music videos on German music television channel VIVA in 1999. Das Glockenspiel Das Glockenspiel (English: ""Carillon"" or ""chime of bells"") is the first single from the 1999 Schiller debut album Zeitgeist. It's the debut of Schiller and it was subtitled internationally with the title The Bell. The trance music single was officially released on 31 December 1998 in Germany and was peaking at number 21 on German Singles Chart in 1999 and"
"bells in Germany. The bells - distributed between the north and south tower - are not rung together, but rung in four separate groups. The oldest bell in the peal is dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus, () and dates from the beginning of the 14th Century. The bell named Hallerin was cast by Nuremberg master Hans Glockengießer in 1540. The Magnificat bell of 1975 is also known as the Bishop's Bell ). The two bells of 1256 have a very characteristic sound, resulting from their special rib bell shape (). Two bells are rung for weekday vespers , one"
"hand and a mallet in the other. They are used from professional music to classrooms. Chime bar A chime bar or resonator bell is a percussion instrument consisting of a tuned metal bar similar to a glockenspiel bar, with each bar mounted on its own wooden resonator. Chime bars are played with mallets again similar to a glockenspiel. The sound is similar to a glockenspiel, but with much more sustain, similar in this respect to a vibraphone but without the vibrato. Chime bars can be arranged on a table to be played by a single player, or played by a"
"Legend"". Struck with mallets, they produced both tap and hum tone. But ""Parsifal"" presented a particular problem because the lowest of the ""Golden Legend"" bells was a minor tenth higher than the lowest note required for Parsifal, and the aggregate weight of the four bells was thousands of pounds. Modern productions of ""Parsifal"" typically use a synthesized, or electronically recorded, church bell sound. Parsifal bell A Parsifal bell (German: ""Parsifal Klavier Instrument"") is a stringed musical instrument designed as a substitute for the church bells that are called for in the score of Richard Wagner's opera ""Parsifal"". The instrument was"
"Keyboard glockenspiel The keyboard glockenspiel (French: ""jeu de timbre"") or organ glockenspiel is an instrument consisting of a glockenspiel operated by a piano keyboard. It was first used by George Frideric Handel in the oratorio ""Saul"" (1739). It was also used in the 1739 revivals of his ""Il Trionfo del Tempo"" and ""Acis and Galatea"", and the next year in ""L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato"". Half a century later, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart employed a ""strumento d’acciaio"" in ""The Magic Flute"" (1791) to represent Papageno's magic bells, and this instrument is believed to have been a keyboard glockenspiel. This part"
"Steerhorn The steerhorn (German: ""stierhorn"", also known in English as a cowhorn or bullhorn) is an extremely long medieval bugle horn. The instrument has been used both orchestrally and in war. The steerhorn has a straight tube with an exact conical bore and no bell flare. The steerhorn is used in Wagner's ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"", as the score requires one steerhorn in ""Die Walküre"" and four in ""Götterdämmerung"". Today, many orchestras substitute the trombone or bass trombone. The Solti recording, the Golden Ring, had a steerhorn specially made as American soldiers carried off Bayreuth's steerhorns after the end of"
"from Latin ""bucina"", Italian buccina. 'Posaune' can be generally applied to brass instruments, as in 'Posaunenchor' (brass band). One of the most popular forms of outdoors public music-making in the 17th century in Germany and central Europe was tower music (German: ""Turmmusik""), organised by the town piper (""Stadtpfeifer"") or tower master (""Turmmeister""). He and his band of musicians, also called ""Stadtpfeifer"" (the German plural is the same as the singular) played music for loud and penetrating wind or brass instruments (alta cappella) from church towers and town hall balconies. These civic wind bands of town pipers had been a feature"
"quarters. Historically, bells have been associated with religious rituals, and are still used to call communities together for religious services. Later, bells were made to commemorate important events or people and have been associated with the concepts of peace and freedom. The study of bells is called campanology. ""Bell"" is a word common to the Low German dialects, cognate with Middle Low German ' and Dutch ""bel"" but not appearing among the other Germanic languages except the Icelandic ' which was a loanword from Old English. It is popularly but not certainly related to the former sense of ""to bell"""
"glockenspiel commonly used in marching bands. It is played upright and has an extendable spike which is held on a strap. The player marches with the strap over his shoulder and plays the instrument upright with a beater. Another variation of the bell lyre exists which is held by a strap round the shoulders and back. This variation is played horizontally with two beaters as it does not need to be held upright. Since the middle of the 19th century this form of the instrument has also been used in military and civil bands in Germany, where it is called"
"Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten The Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten is located in a freestanding 42m-tall tower next to the House of World Cultures (""Haus der Kulturen der Welt""), near the Chancellery in the northeastern part of Berlin's central Tiergarten park. It is a large, manually played concert instrument, comprising 68 bells weighing a total of 48 metric tonnes (almost 106,000 lbs.) connected to a keyboard spanning 5½ fully chromatic octaves; the largest bell weighs 7.8 tonnes (almost 17,200 lbs.). The carillonneur sits in a playing cabin in the middle of the bells and plays with his fists and feet on a baton-and-pedal"
"World War II. Steerhorn The steerhorn (German: ""stierhorn"", also known in English as a cowhorn or bullhorn) is an extremely long medieval bugle horn. The instrument has been used both orchestrally and in war. The steerhorn has a straight tube with an exact conical bore and no bell flare. The steerhorn is used in Wagner's ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"", as the score requires one steerhorn in ""Die Walküre"" and four in ""Götterdämmerung"". Today, many orchestras substitute the trombone or bass trombone. The Solti recording, the Golden Ring, had a steerhorn specially made as American soldiers carried off Bayreuth's steerhorns after"
"material for the piece. Klangplatten (sound plates) are a custom instrument that Stockhausen purchased from a manufacturer named M. Grabmann in Bockum. They are similar to bell plates, except for the fact that they are made of bronze, which emulates the sound of low church bells. If klangplatten are not available, the performer may use tuned gongs . The klangplatten player also has the option of signaling the other players with either a tubular bell or a spinning top, which plays an overtone chord. Stockhausen indicates that the central trio of performers should either play on three sets of antique"
"Song of the Bell The ""Song of the Bell"" (German: ""Das Lied von der Glocke"", also translated as ""The Lay of the Bell"") is a poem that the German poet Friedrich Schiller published in 1798. It is one of the most famous poems of German literature and with 430 lines also one of the longest. In it, Schiller combines a knowledgeable technical description of a bell founding with points of view and comments on human life, its possibilities and risks. As a small boy Schiller came in contact with the trade of bell founding because Georg Friderich Neubert, the son"
"and a vertical bell. Like the German horn, it uses rotary valves. Despite its name, it is not considered part of the tuba family. Invented for Richard Wagner specifically for his work ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"", it has been used subsequently by other composers, including Bruckner, Stravinsky and Richard Strauss. It uses a horn mouthpiece and is available as a single tuba in B or F, or, more recently, as a double tuba similar to the double horn. Its common range is similar to that of the euphonium, but its possible range is the same as that of the horn,"
"in acts 1 and 3 have often proved problematic to stage. For the earlier performances of ""Parsifal"" in Bayreuth, Wagner had the Parsifal bell, a piano frame with four strings, constructed as a substitute for church bells. For the first performances, the bells were combined with tam-tam and gongs. However, the bell was used with the tuba, four tam-tams tuned to the pitch of the four chime notes and another tam-tam on which a roll is executed by using a drumstick. In modern-day performances, the Parsifal bell has been replaced with tubular bells or synthesizers to produce the desired notes."
"He demonstrates the instrument's playing technique and plays a carillon piece for his guests. Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten The Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten is located in a freestanding 42m-tall tower next to the House of World Cultures (""Haus der Kulturen der Welt""), near the Chancellery in the northeastern part of Berlin's central Tiergarten park. It is a large, manually played concert instrument, comprising 68 bells weighing a total of 48 metric tonnes (almost 106,000 lbs.) connected to a keyboard spanning 5½ fully chromatic octaves; the largest bell weighs 7.8 tonnes (almost 17,200 lbs.). The carillonneur sits in a playing cabin in the"
"Bladder fiddle The bladder fiddle (also known as bumbass or poispil) is a folk instrument used throughout Europe. The instrument was a simple large monochord made with a long stick, a thick gut string, and a pig's bladder. It is bowed with either a notched stick or a horsehair bow. It is known under different names; in Germany it was called the bumbass, in France the ""basse de Flandre"", and in England a drone, ""drone and string"" or bladder fiddle. In Germany sometimes a bell or cymbal was added to the top for decoration or additional sound. In England it"
"Glass harmonica The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from , ""harmonia"", the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones). The name ""glass harmonica"" (also ""glass armonica"", ""glassharmonica""; ""harmonica de verre"", ""harmonica de Franklin"", ""armonica de verre"", or just ""harmonica"" in French; ""Glasharmonika"" in German; ""harmonica"" in Dutch) refers today to any instrument played"
"a plectrum. This instrument is similar to a Psaltery, Dulcimer or Cymbalom. Note: The German word Zimbel is cymbal (music), while Zimbal is Cymbalom. Zimber Zimber used as a surname and believed to be Germanic but the meaning is undefined. Used as a surname in Eastern Europe since the 17th Century. Zimber may be a variant of the German word Kimber or members of a historic second century Germanic ethnic group. Now called the Cimbri. Kimber (name) is also a forename and surname. Zimber and Zimmer is a German exonym for Cembra and related to the Cimbri ancestry. Zimber may"
"through these predefined settings. Thus, it was called the ""Mixtur-Trautonium"". Oskar Sala composed music for industrial films, but the most famous was the bird noises for Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Birds"". The Trautonium was also used in the Dresden première of Richard Strauss's Japanese Festival Music in 1942 for emulating the gongs- and bells-parts and in the 1950s in Bayreuth for the Monsalvat bells in Wagner's Parsifal. The German manufacturer Doepfer sells some devices for the commercial market to allow for Trautonium-like synthesizer control. The German manufacturer trautoniks sells custom made Trautoniums. Although Oskar Sala developed the Trautonium further, he did"
"Wagner tuba The Wagner tuba is an infrequently-used brass instrument that combines tonal elements of both the French horn and the trombone. Wagner tubas (or ""Wagnertuben"") are also referred to as Wagner horns or Bayreuth tubas in English and as Bayreuth-Tuben or simply Tuben in German. The term ""Wagner tuba"" has been used in English since the 19th century and is standard today. Wagner's published scores usually refer to these instruments in the plural, ""Tuben"", but sometimes in the singular, ""Tuba"". The Wagner tuba was originally created for Richard Wagner's operatic cycle ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"". Since then, other composers"
"as early as 1511 by Sebastian Virdung. Around the middle of the seventeenth century instruments began to appear in the form of brass tubes wound into a single open hoop, with a flared exit opening (the bell). Although these came to be associated especially with France, the first known example was made in 1667 by the German maker Starck, in Nuremberg. In French, they were most often called ""trompe de chasse"", though ""cor de chasse"" is also frequently found. In Germany, they came to be called ""Waldhörner"". Because these horns were intended to be played on horseback during a hunt"