Tubaphone

{{Infobox instrument

| name = Tubaphone

| names = {{hlist|Tubaphon|Tubophone|Tubuscampanophon}}

| image = Viscount Bells (from Emil Richards Collection).jpg

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| background = percussion

| classification = Keyboard percussion

| hornbostel_sachs = 111.232

| hornbostel_sachs_desc = Sets of percussion tubes

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| range = C₆–C₈

| related =

| builders = {{hlist|J.C. Deagan Company|}}

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A tubaphone is a type of metallophone constructed from a series of metal tubes arranged in a keyboard configuration.{{Cite book |editor-last=Beck |editor-first=John H. |title=Encyclopedia of Percussion |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |isbn=9780415971232 |edition=2nd |pages=97 |oclc=939052116}}{{cite book |author=Rossing |first=Thomas D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xqbNlVUsTU4C&dq=tubaphone&pg=PA74 |title=Science of Percussion Instruments |publisher=World Scientific |year=2000 |isbn=9789810241582 |pages=74 |oclc=45679450}} The tubes are similar in length to that of a xylophone, and sound vaguely like a glockenspiel.{{Cite book |last=Peinkofer |first=Karl |title=Handbook of Percussion Instruments |last2=Tannigel |first2=Fritz |publisher=Schott Music |year=1976 |pages=71 |translator-last=Stone |translator-first=Kurt |oclc=2215857}}