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== Steel marimba == |
== Steel marimba == |
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Also invented by Deagan was the steel marimba, a variation on the steel marimbaphone design that was intended to be played strictly with mallets and not bowed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Deagan Resource|url=http://www.deaganresource.com/steelmar.html|access-date=2020-08-29|website=www.deaganresource.com}}</ref> Both of these instruments were superseded by the invention of the vibraphone in 1927.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Deagan Resource|url=http://www.deaganresource.com/vibraphones.html|access-date=2020-08-29|website=www.deaganresource.com}}</ref> |
Also invented by Deagan was the steel marimba, a variation on the steel marimbaphone design that was intended to be played strictly with mallets and not bowed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Deagan Resource|url=http://www.deaganresource.com/steelmar.html|access-date=2020-08-29|website=www.deaganresource.com}}</ref> Both of these instruments were superseded by the invention of the vibraphone in 1927.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Deagan Resource|url=http://www.deaganresource.com/vibraphones.html|access-date=2020-08-29|website=www.deaganresource.com}}</ref> |
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== Other use of the name == |
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Some non-graduated, smaller range marimbas, like the Musser M31, are colloquially referred to as marimbaphones in the context of marching band or drum corps front ensembles because they have the bar size and range of a xylophone but are in the octave of a marimba, and thus produce a more mellow sound. When played with harder mallets they are a compromise between the high pitched and staccato xylophone and the mellow full-sized, graduated marimba. |
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==See also== |
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Revision as of 18:48, 21 September 2023
The marimbaphone is an obsolete tuned percussion instrument, developed by J. C. Deagan, Inc., of Chicago, Illinois, in the early 20th century.
Description
The marimbaphone had either shallow steel or wooden bars arranged chromatically with a tube resonator under each bar. Its timbre was similar to the celesta, and it was used mainly by marimba bands and as a solo instrument by stage artists.
In addition to being played with mallets in the conventional way (as in the playing of a marimba or vibraphone), the marimbaphone was designed so that its bars could be rotated from a horizontal position to a vertical position, allowing them to more easily be played with a bow. To further facilitate bowing, the ends of its bars were shaped to be concave rather than flat. A single marimbaphone could be played by more than one performer, allowing both techniques to be used simultaneously.[1]
Although the instrument has been comparatively little used in art music (Percy Grainger was one of only a few composers ever to call for it), the name is mistakenly written in many scores intending the use of the ordinary marimba rather than the marimbaphone.[2]
Steel marimba
Also invented by Deagan was the steel marimba, a variation on the steel marimbaphone design that was intended to be played strictly with mallets and not bowed.[3] Both of these instruments were superseded by the invention of the vibraphone in 1927.[4]
Other use of the name
Some non-graduated, smaller range marimbas, like the Musser M31, are colloquially referred to as marimbaphones in the context of marching band or drum corps front ensembles because they have the bar size and range of a xylophone but are in the octave of a marimba, and thus produce a more mellow sound. When played with harder mallets they are a compromise between the high pitched and staccato xylophone and the mellow full-sized, graduated marimba.
See also
References
- ^ "The Deagan Resource - A Historical Reference Catalog of Deagan Instruments". www.deaganresource.com. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
- ^ Blades, James (2001). Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "Marimbaphone" (Second ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0195170672.
- ^ "The Deagan Resource". www.deaganresource.com. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
- ^ "The Deagan Resource". www.deaganresource.com. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
External links
- Deagan Steel Marimbaphone exhibit from Percussive Arts Society Museum site
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