flexatone

Also known as flex-a-tone

thumb|Suggested notation of music for flexatone, using roll symbols for the tremolo and approximate pitch thumb|Rhythmic pattern easily playable on the flexatone

Key facts

Instrument.name: Flexatone
Instrument.image: Flexatone 2005.jpg
Instrument.background: Percussion
Instrument.classification: Percussion
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs: 112.12
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc: Frame rattles
Instrument.inventors: the Playertone Company of New York, Although we do not have any record of who exactly invented the flexatone
Instrument.developed: 1922
Instrument.pitch: medium
Instrument.timbre: bright, metallic
Instrument.volume: medium
Instrument.attack: fast
Instrument.decay: slow
Instrument.related: musical saw, ondes Martenot, slide whistle, vibraphone, water gong
Instrument.builders: Playatone, Kolberg Percussion Steve Weiss Music

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Image: Flexatone Apr2005.jpg

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Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 154
Commons category: Flexatones

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History, construction and technique
Double meaning of the term "Flexatone"
Uses
In popular culture
Samples
See also
References
Further reading

thumb|Suggested notation of music for flexatone, using roll symbols for the tremolo and approximate pitch thumb|Rhythmic pattern easily playable on the flexatone

The flexatone or fleximetal is a modern percussion instrument (an indirectly struck idiophone) consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle. Used in classic cartoons for its glissando effect, its sound is comparable to the musical saw.