Bells (musical notation - Campane tubolari , Orchestral bells ; German Röhrenglocken , English tubular bell ) - percussion instrument of a symphony orchestra ( idiophone ).
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A set of 12-18 cylindrical metal tubes with a diameter of 25-38 mm suspended in a rack frame (height about 2 m).
Hit the mallet, the head of which is covered with leather.
The scale is chromatic . The range is 1–1.5 octaves (usually from F; notated by an octave higher than it sounds).
Modern bells are equipped with a damper . In the bell orchestra imitate bell ringing.
Invented in 1893 by the Englishman Herington. The sound pitch depends on one or another length of the cylinders, and the strength depends on the larger or smaller diameter. Cylinders lend themselves to precise tuning and are not as massive as classic bells.
In popular music
British multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield has gained wide popularity among listeners, having created the musical trilogy Tubular Bells (1973), Tubular Bells II (1992), Tubular Bells III (1998) (and also released a re-recorded version of the trilogy - Tubular Bells 2003 ) . Only in Britain, 2,630,000 copies of the first part were sold (the 34th album in the list of the best-selling in the UK in history) and somewhere between 15-17 million worldwide [1] . On the covers of these albums invariably depicted a bent cylindrical bell, which became the recognizable symbol of Mike Oldfield.