Musical Instrument or Tone
- Chime (bell instrument), an array of large bells, typically housed in a tower and played from a keyboard.
- An instrument of this kind with 23 bells or more is known as a carillon
- Tubular bell, or chimes, a percussion instrument struck with hammers
- Wind chime or Aeolian chime, suspended bells sounded when blown together by the wind
- Bar chimes also known as a Mark tree, a series of many small chimes of decreasing length, arranged horizontally
- Chime bars, individual instruments similar to glockenspiel bars but with resonators
- Warning chime, a sound used in machinery or computers to alert users of a dangerous condition
- Macintosh startup chime, the sound a Macintosh computer makes on startup
Read more about this topic: Chime
Famous quotes containing the words musical, instrument and/or tone:
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“The law is not a “light” for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.”
—Robert Bolt (1924–1995)
“Our medieval historians who prefer to rely as much as possible on official documents because the chronicles are unreliable, fall thereby into an occasionally dangerous error. The documents tell us little about the difference in tone which separates us from those times; they let us forget the fervent pathos of medieval life.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)