Chime bar

For other uses, see Chime.

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.

A set of nine chime bars, tuned diatonically

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]

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

See also

• Tubular bell, also known as bar chime
• Mark tree, also known as bar chimes^[5]
• Percussion instrument