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===Percussion instruments=== | ===Percussion instruments=== | ||
Timpani are still used to this day. However, they are smaller and are constructed like roto-toms, in sets of ten, in case they need to bring out melodies. Symphonic works/parts of works written in the "German" style need only have two timpani which are constructed more traditionally. | |||
The glockenspiel has been enlarged to give an almost six-octave range to form an orchestral metallophone. An orchestral xylophone has the range of the upper four octaves of the orchestral metallophone. | |||
Unpitched percussion are made the same way. | |||
===The Earth#10 symphony orchestra=== | ===The Earth#10 symphony orchestra=== | ||