page_title: Tubular bells
hierarchical_section_title: Tubular bells
caption_attribution_description: English: Yamaha Deagan chimes (from LA Percussion Rentals), range C4-G5 Other information See User:Xylosmygame for more information. Xylosmygame (talk) 17:19, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
context_page_description: Tubular bells are musical instruments in the percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillon, or a bell tower; the original tubular bells were made to duplicate the sound of church bells within an ensemble. Each bell is a metal tube, 30–38 mm in diameter, tuned by altering its length. Its standard range is C₄–F₅, though many professional instruments reach G₅. Tubular bells are often replaced by studio chimes, which are a smaller and usually less expensive instrument. Studio chimes are similar in appearance to tubular bells, but each bell has a smaller diameter than the corresponding bell on tubular bells.
  Tubular bells are sometimes struck on the top edge of the tube with a rawhide- or plastic-headed hammer. Often, a sustain pedal will be attached to allow extended ringing of the bells. They can also be bowed at the bottom of the tube to produce a very loud, very high-pitched overtone.
  The tubes used provide a purer tone than solid cylindrical chimes, such as those on a mark tree.
  Chimes are often found in orchestral and concert band repertoire. It rarely plays melody, instead being used most often as a color to add to the ensemble sound.
context_section_description: Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillon, or a bell tower; the original tubular bells were made to duplicate the sound of church bells within an ensemble. Each bell is a metal tube, 30–38 mm (1 ¹⁄₄–1 ¹⁄₂ in) in diameter, tuned by altering its length. Its standard range is C₄–F₅, though many professional instruments reach G₅. Tubular bells are often replaced by studio chimes, which are a smaller and usually less expensive instrument. Studio chimes are similar in appearance to tubular bells, but each bell has a smaller diameter than the corresponding bell on tubular bells.
  Tubular bells are sometimes struck on the top edge of the tube with a rawhide- or plastic-headed hammer. Often, a sustain pedal will be attached to allow extended ringing of the bells. They can also be bowed at the bottom of the tube to produce a very loud, very high-pitched overtone.
  The tubes used provide a purer tone than solid cylindrical chimes, such as those on a mark tree.
  Chimes are often found in orchestral and concert band repertoire. It rarely plays melody, instead being used most often as a color to add to the ensemble sound. It does have solos occasionally, often depicting church bells.
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  In tubular bells, modes 4, 5, and 6 appear to determine the strike tone and have frequencies in the ratios 9²:11²:13², or 81:121:169, "which are close enough to the ratios 2:3:4 for the ear to consider them nearly harmonic and to use them as a basis for establishing a virtual pitch".  The perceived "strike pitch" is thus an octave below the fourth mode (i.e., the missing "1" in the above series).
caption: Chimes/tubular bells (by Yamaha)
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