chime bar

{{Short description|Percussion instrument}}

{{Other uses|Chime (disambiguation){{!}}Chime}}

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A chime bar or resonator bell{{cite book|author=Jerry Storms|title=101 More Music Games for Children: New Fun and Learning with Rhythm and Song|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bp9e19-SbsUC&pg=PA23|access-date=18 November 2012|date=1 December 2001|publisher=Hunter House|isbn=978-0-89793-298-1|pages=23–}} is a percussion instrument consisting of a tuned metal bar similar to a glockenspiel bar, with each bar mounted on its own wooden resonator.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Studio-49-Individual-Chime-C52-A73/dp/B002I467OO|title=Studio 49 Individual Chime Bar C52-A73: Amazon.co.uk: Musical Instruments|website=Amazon.co.uk|access-date=20 April 2021}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.paytons.com.au/category.php?id_category=467|title=Paytons - Chime Bars|website=Paytons.com.au|access-date=20 April 2021}} Chime bars are played with mallets again similar to a glockenspiel.

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.{{Cite web |url=http://optimumpercussion.com.au/classroom-percussion/chime-bars-metal.html |title=Chime bars- (Metal) - Classroom Percussion |access-date=2012-03-10 |archive-date=2012-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329083149/http://optimumpercussion.com.au/classroom-percussion/chime-bars-metal.html |url-status=dead }}

{{gallery|File:Bar chime.JPG|A single chime in G

|File:Bar chime disassembled.JPG|The same chime disassembled to show the resonator and mounting

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