Tubaphone

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]

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An excerpt from Porgy and Bess played on a tubaphone

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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