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Tubaphone
Percussion instrument
Other names	Tubaphon; Tubophone; Tubuscampanophon;
Classification	Keyboard percussion
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	111.232; (Sets of percussion tubes)
Playing range
	C6–C8
Builders
	J.C. Deagan Company;

A tubaphone is a type of metallophone constructed from a series of metal tubes arranged in a keyboard configuration.^[1]^[2] The tubes are similar in length to that of a xylophone, and sound vaguely like a glockenspiel.^[3]

References

↑ Beck, John H., ed. (2014). Encyclopedia of Percussion (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-4159-7123-2. OCLC 939052116.
↑ Rossing, Thomas D. (2000). Science of Percussion Instruments. World Scientific. p. 74. ISBN 978-9-8102-4158-2. OCLC 45679450.
↑ Peinkofer, Karl; Tannigel, Fritz (1976). Handbook of Percussion Instruments. Translated by Stone, Kurt. Schott Music. p. 71. OCLC 2215857.

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An excerpt from Porgy and Bess played on a tubaphone

[1] Beck, John H., ed. (2014). Encyclopedia of Percussion (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-4159-7123-2. OCLC 939052116.

[2] Rossing, Thomas D. (2000). Science of Percussion Instruments. World Scientific. p. 74. ISBN 978-9-8102-4158-2. OCLC 45679450.

[3] Peinkofer, Karl; Tannigel, Fritz (1976). Handbook of Percussion Instruments. Translated by Stone, Kurt. Schott Music. p. 71. OCLC 2215857.

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