Glockenspiel

Percussion

Musical Theory and Technique

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    The Glockenspiel is a percussion instrument.

    The glockenspiel is a percussion musical instrument having a series of metal bars tuned to the chromatic scale and played with two light hammers.

    General MIDI Level 1 Sound Set Program Channel Number: decimal 10 or hexadecimal 0x09. (See General MIDI Level 1 Sound Set.)

    The word “glockenspiel” comes from the German word “Glockenspiel” meaning play of bells which comes from the German word “Glocke” meaning bell which comes from the Old High German word “glocka” which is imitiative of the sound of a bell and from the German word “Spiel” meaning play.