The standing performer faces the vibraphone on the ‘white-key’ side of the instrument (in the photo that would be on the near side with back to the camera). Player - Instrument Interface and Sound Production The open frame from which the bars and resonators are suspended is made from wood, and this rests on top of a support made of metal pipes and bars the legs of which terminate in small casters. Each tube length and volume is attuned to the frequency of its bar and amplifies its sound. There are two rows of tuned metal tube resonators of varying lengths (from 1.3 to 10 inches long), open at their top but closed at their bottom end, one tube located beneath the center of each bar. The keys are therefore suspended over rather than resting on the frame. Ropes run horizontally through the bars at their acoustical nodes and are supported by posts positioned between the bars that are attached to the instrument's frame. The bars are arranged in the keyboard fashion, with the ‘black notes’ in a separate row raised slightly above the plane of the diatonic notes. The xylophone has 44 tuned rosewood bars ranging in length from 5.3 to 17.3 inches all bars are 1.6 inches wide and. Both inside and outside of classical music circles, the xylophone has been used as a virtuosic solo instrument. The xylophone, like other keyboard percussion instruments, necessitates a level of specialization on the part of the performer to play well, and not every percussionist can be expected to be proficient on it. ![]() Historically, it was a much-recorded solo instrument in the popular music of the early decades of the 20 th century in part because it recorded well on the equipment of the day (listen to the audio clip for this page on which a composition by a famous performer/composer of this era is performed). It is a standard instrument today in the battery of western percussion instruments and is called for in many late-19 th century to the present orchestral and concert band works and also in many percussion ensemble works (see Mixed Percussion Ensembles and Keyboard Percussion Ensembles). ![]() The xylophone is a xylophone idiophone of European origin found today distributed throughout the world wherever Western cosmopolitanism has taken root.
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