Dendrophone
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The dendrophone (from the Greek δένδρον , déndron , "tree" and φωνή, phōnḗ , "voice, sound") is a baton game suitable for children , in which freely hanging branches, boards, wooden hollow bodies with sound holes or wooden tubes (tubular endophone) outdoors - for example on educational forest trails or kindergartens - are attached to a (roofed) cross piece of wood. Different types of trees with wooden sticks of the same length can be used to show that different types of wood give off different tones due to different density and moisture. A tree species with sound bodies of different lengths and thicknesses or a combination of various types of wood and sound body lengths can also be used. Type of wood, length and diameter of the tonewood or the dimensions of timbered hollow wood bodies determine the sound.
Wooden mallets, wooden hammers, hard rubber hammers and, especially for hollow bodies, also felt mallets are suitable as stop tools. A dendrophone can be tuned under optimal conditions (constant temperature and humidity). You can play melodies on it with one or two mallets like xylophones , whose sound plates are horizontally in a row.
Web links
- Dendrophone - playing. Youtube video