Viscount Bells

$132.00

Very bright tubaphone, chromatically tuned.

Additional information

Weight 683664287 kg
Alternate name Tube A Phone, Tubaphone, Tubophone, Tubaphon, Tubuscampanophon
Model No. n/a
Maker n/a
Range C6-C8

Octave Shift 2
Categories Emil Richards Collection, Mallet Instruments, Other Chromatic Percussion
Tags Bright, Europe, Hollow, Long, Metal, North America, Pitched: Chromatic, Pure, Rich, Shimmery

Videos:

Lemony Snicket , Bad Beginning

Listen for the high, metallic, hollow sound of viscount bells in this excerpt from *Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events* (2004) by Thomas Newman.


Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (main title)

The title for *Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan* (1982) by James Horner features viscount bells, which punctuate part of the melody, continuing at 1:53.


Zootopia: The Nick of Time (viscount bells)

Viscount bells are played delicately with a variation of softer and medium-hardness mallets in this clip from Zootopia (2016) by Michael Giacchino.