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Glockenspiel.
Technical description: Cast aluminium alloy bars of lengths 126-199 in keyboard layout; mounted in solid construction wooden box and fitted with folded air-column resonators. Nails through bars have fibre and felt washers fitted. Repair History: One of the bars (A?) is a crude replacement, quite different in dimensions, but in fact a good match in tone and tuning.
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Early 1920s - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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- Hornbostel-Sachs classification:111.222 Sets of percussion plaques
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:111.222 Sets of percussion plaques
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:case 630 × 435 × 125.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17591