Litofon adalah alat musik berupa batu atau kumpulan batu yang menghasilkan nada apabila dipukul.[1] Nadanya bisa diciptakan secara berbarengan (harmoni) atau berlanjutan (melodi). Litofon merupakan idiofon yang satu kelompok dengan glockenspiel, vibrafon, xilofon, dan marimba.

Kartu pos tahun 1906 ini menunjukkan cara memainkan litofon zaman dulu di Luray Caverns, Virginia, Amerika Serikat
Pahatan litofon di Schloss Freudenberg

Dalam sistem klasifikasi Hornbostel-Sachs, litofon masuk kategori '111.22' (lempeng perkusi yang dipukul secara langsung).

Contoh

  • Ancients Indians were perhaps first to use man-made Lithophone as an architectural element. Temples like Nellaiyappar temple (8th century) in Tirunelveli, Vijaya Vitthala temple (15th century) in Hampi, Madurai Meenakshi temple (16th century) and Suchindram Thanumalayan temple (17th century) have musical pillars.[2]

Marimba batu

Marimba batu disusun seperti marimba yang terbuat dari kayu. Lebar batangnya kurang lebih sama, tetapi lebih tipis daripada marimba kayu, sehingga resonansinya lebih tinggi. Marimba batu mungkin dilengkapi dengan resonator.

Marimba batu yang dipajang di Musée de l'Homme diduga merupakan alat musik tertua di Bumi.[3]

Lihat pula

Referensi

  1. ^ Diagram Group. (1976). Musical instruments of the world. Published for Unicef by Facts On File. hlm. 121. ISBN 0871963205. OCLC 223164947. 
  2. ^ Prasad, M.G.; Rajavel, B. "Musical pillars and singing rocks" (PDF). Taranga. Diakses tanggal 28 January 2018. 
  3. ^ The stones of Ndut Lieng Krak. New Scientist. 10 January 1957. hlm. 8. Diakses tanggal 5 January 2013. 

Pranala luar

  • The British composer Will Menter [1] invented the llechiphone, a marimba with keys made of slate, while working in North Wales.[2]
  • UK Musician, Tony Dale developed a resonated slate lithophone in 1984 featured by composer John Hardy.
  • Other slate lithophones, called stonaphones, are made in the U.S. state of Maine by Jim Doble out of recycled slate roofing.[3]
  • An installation in Quark Park by Perry Cook and Jonathan Shor, consisting of 17 bars stretched over a 35-kaki (11 m) long path.
  • Audio and video of Stalacpipe Organ on Sound Tourism site
  • lithophones.com Photographs, audio clips, and videos of lithophones from around the world, historical and contemporary.

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