534i2: Struck

534i2: Struck

Description

With a struck idiophone, the sound is produced when a vibrating component is struck by a beater such as a stick or hammer. The vibrating component is a solid body such as a disc, board, bar or beam. It may be made of wood, stone, gourd, bamboo, or metal.

Examples:

Gongs, xylophones, slit drums, steel drums, struck bells, lithophones (stones struck with other stones), metallopones

Also known as:

percussion idiophone

Context for this page:

Ocm module: Struck
In ocm module: Idiophones
In ocm module: Musical instruments
In modular book: Expanded ethnomusicology categories for the Outline of Cultural Materials, by Kenneth R. Hollingsworth
In bookshelf: Anthropology

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 21 March 1999