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A mallet percussion instrument is a melodic percussion instrument played in a particular fashion, with mallets. Mallet percussion includes: * xylophone * glockenspiel (or Bells) * vibraphone * marimba * balafon * aluphone The use of mallet percussion dates back at least 4,000 years to the first known xylophone.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vienna Symphonic Library Online: Quotes 2000 BCE, 4013 years )〕 Mallet percussion was first used in a modern European orchestra in 1874, when Camille Saint-Saëns used a xylophone in his ''Dance Macabre''. Modern mallet percussion instruments exist at many levels, from toy glockenspiels such as the Pixiphone popularly (and incorrectly) known as ''xylophones'', to orchestral instruments, and including many folk instruments. Many of these are diatonic, while professional mallet percussion instruments are chromatic keyboard percussion instruments, set out in a fashion similar to a piano keyboard. Although all mallet percussion is played with types of percussion mallet, the converse is not true. Not all instruments played with percussion mallets are termed ''mallet percussion'' instruments, and not all percussion mallets are used to play mallet percussion instruments. Rather, the term ''percussion mallet'' is applied very widely, including for example tympani sticks and even drum sticks and the beaters used for untuned gongs. ==See also== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「mallet percussion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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