Flexatone
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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.[5] Used in classic cartoons for its glissando effect, its sound is comparable to the musical saw.[4]
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Percussion | |
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Classification | Percussion |
Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 112.12 (Frame rattles) |
Developed | 1922 |
Timbre | bright, metallic |
Volume | medium |
Attack | fast |
Decay | slow |
Playing range | |
medium | |
Related instruments | |
musical saw, ondes Martenot, slide whistle, vibraphone, water gong | |
Builders | |
Playatone, Kolberg Percussion[2] Steve Weiss Music |
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