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BELLS (German: Glocken, French. Cloches, Italian. Campanе) - a percussion musical instrument with a certain pitch. It is a set of 12-18 pipe cylinders (usually brass, nickel or steel chrome, with a diameter of 25-38 mm), freely suspended in metallic. or wooden frame-stand (height approx. 2 m). Modern To. Have a damper device (see. Damper), which is driven by a pedal and a manual lever. The sound is extracted by the blow of a hammer (a mallet with a barrel-shaped head covered in leather). Range K. 1-11 / 2 octaves (usually from the large octave fa in sound; it is an octave higher). Set K., as a rule, gives 12 semitones of an octave (pipes are tuned chromatically). K. apply in symph. and opera orchestras to simulate bell ringing (eg, the epilogue of the opera “Ivan Susanin” by Glinka, the overture “1812” by Tchaikovsky,"Parsifal" by Wagner, "The Poem of Ecstasy" by Scriabin and others). Sometimes in the orchestra use a set of real K.