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:

 Collections of individual pitched percussion instruments in different pitches, such as hand bells and the angklung.
 Instruments that produce different pitches when struck in different places, such as the steel drum.
 Instruments that contain a collection of sounding objects tuned to different notes, such as the xylophone.

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.

List of percussion instruments that produce musical scales

Balaphone
Carillon and  chimes
Cimbalom (and closely related instruments such as santouri, tsimbl, tsymbaly, and tambal mic)
Clavichord and Clavinet
Gambang
 Ghata tarang - set of ghatams
Gendér
Glass harp
Glockenspiel
Gyil
Hammered Dulcimer (and closely related instruments such as hackbrett)
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

See also
 Pitched percussion
 Mallet percussion
 Keyboard percussion

References

Category:Melodic percussion