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Wire Weasel

Wire Weasel

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What's another name for an instrument similar to a Chinese Bell Tree?

I'm looking at the round metal tube type ones arranged in a string horizontally, free hanging, and you strike against them and they give that sound like ice cycles hitting against each other.

What's the modern name for that...one that a current band would use?

Tubular bells?

Thanks for any help!
 

I have been a drummer for 30 years and yes what you are referring to are known as chimes Neil Peart the drummer from the 3 man rock group RUSH who is also known to be the best drummer in the world has a really cool set of chimes they go from huge to really small I dont know how he uses those little ones LMAO!! His chimes range in sound from a large church bell sound to the high pitch breaking glass that you refer to.
 
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The smaller ones - with the cylinders less than 8 inches long or so, are generally called "wind chimes". The larger ones, with hollow tubes ranging from 2 feet to about 4 feet long are just "tubular chimes" to a classical percussionist (like me).

The ones with metal bars mounted horizontally like the keys on a piano are called orchestra bells or glockenspiel. Larger ones with built-in vibrato are vibraphones.

If the bars are made of wood, it's a xylophone (literally "wood sound"). Xylophones can be marimbas.

But the ones Wire Weasel described would be "wind chimes".
 
Beetle said:
The smaller ones - with the cylinders less than 8 inches long or so, are generally called "wind chimes". The larger ones, with hollow tubes ranging from 2 feet to about 4 feet long are just "tubular chimes" to a classical percussionist (like me).

The ones with metal bars mounted horizontally like the keys on a piano are called orchestra bells or glockenspiel. Larger ones with built-in vibrato are vibraphones.

If the bars are made of wood, it's a xylophone (literally "wood sound"). Xylophones can be marimbas.

But the ones Wire Weasel described would be "wind chimes".
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I was waiting for Beetle to chime in on this. I knew he would have a rather resounding answer. :whistle:
 
Thanks for all the responses guys. Actually Mo nailed this one. When looking for what I'm referring to on the internet & ebay for purchase....they are called Bar Chimes.

TNX !!
 
It may be just a matter of semantics but hollow tubes, as you asked about, would be tubular chimes while solid bars as Mole mentioned would be bar chimes.
 
Wire Weasel said:
What's another name for an instrument similar to a Chinese Bell Tree?

I'm looking at the round metal tube type ones arranged in a string horizontally, free hanging, and you strike against them and they give that sound like ice cycles hitting against each other.

What's the modern name for that...one that a current band would use?

Tubular bells?

Thanks for any help!
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This is probably your speed.

YouTube - cookie tin guitar
 

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