flexatone
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Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Flexatone
- Instrument.image
- Flexatone 2005.jpg
- Instrument.background
- Percussion
- Instrument.classification
- Percussion
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 112.12
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Frame rattles
- Instrument.inventors
- the Playertone Company of New York, Although we do not have any record of who exactly invented the flexatone
- Instrument.developed
- 1922
- Instrument.pitch
- medium
- Instrument.timbre
- bright, metallic
- Instrument.volume
- medium
- Instrument.attack
- fast
- Instrument.decay
- slow
- Instrument.related
- musical saw, ondes Martenot, slide whistle, vibraphone, water gong
- Instrument.builders
- Playatone, Kolberg Percussion Steve Weiss Music
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
8 sectionsContents
- History, construction and technique
- Double meaning of the term "Flexatone"
- Uses
- In popular culture
- Samples
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|Suggested notation of music for flexatone, using roll symbols for the tremolo and approximate pitch thumb|Rhythmic pattern easily playable on the flexatone
The flexatone or fleximetal is a modern percussion instrument (an indirectly struck idiophone) consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle. Used in classic cartoons for its glissando effect, its sound is comparable to the musical saw.