Melodic percussion instrument
A melodic percussion instrument is a percussion instrument used to produce several different notes of different pitches. Melodic percussion instruments are examples of pitched percussion and include mallet percussion and keyboard percussion.
Melodic percussion instruments take one of three main forms:
Many melodic percussion instruments have resonators, providing a second way of classifying them:
- Some instruments such as the marimba have an individual resonator for each note.
- Some instruments such as the hang have a resonator shared by several or all notes.
- Some instruments such as the glockenspiel have no resonator.
- Balaphone
- Carillon and chimes
- Cimbalom
- Clavichord and Clavinet
- Gambang
- Ghata tarang - set of ghatams
- Gendér
- Glass harp
- Glockenspiel
- Gyil
- Hammered Dulcimer
- Handbells set
- Hang
- Kulintang
- Kulintang a tiniok
- Jal tarang
- Khim
- Loh tarang
- Marimba
- Pat waing
- Piano
- Santoor
- Santur
- Skrabalai
- Steelpan
- Tank drum
- Tongue drum
- Tabla tarang
- Tambour bèlè
- Tubaphone
- Tubular bells
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
- Yangqin
