Chime bar

Percussion instrument

A chime bar or resonator bell^[1] is a percussion instrument consisting of a tuned metal bar similar to a glockenspiel bar, with each bar mounted on its own wooden resonator.^[2]^[3] Chime bars are played with mallets again similar to a glockenspiel.

The sound is similar to a glockenspiel, but with much more sustain, similar in this respect to a vibraphone but without the vibrato.

Chime bars can be arranged on a table to be played by a single player, or played by a group in a similar fashion to handbells, with each member holding a chime in one hand and a mallet in the other. They are used from professional music to classrooms.^[4]

A single chime in G
The same chime disassembled to show the resonator and mounting

References

^ Jerry Storms (1 December 2001). 101 More Music Games for Children: New Fun and Learning with Rhythm and Song. Hunter House. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-0-89793-298-1. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
^ "Studio 49 Individual Chime Bar C52-A73: Amazon.co.uk: Musical Instruments". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
^ "Paytons - Chime Bars". Paytons.com.au. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
^ "Chime bars- (Metal) - Classroom Percussion". Archived from the original on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
^ "LP Concert Series Bar Chimes - 25 Bars". Archived from the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2012-03-10.