POMRN · RMM:1928/32
Glockenspiel
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Description
This instrument was competed for by Volunteer Bands, between 1928 and 1932, in American and West Indies Station. It is a portable glockenspiel (i.e. metallophone - percussion instrument with tuned metal bars) in the shape of a lyre, therefore known as ""lyra glockenspiel"" or ""bell lyra,"" which is used in military or other marching bands. The frame is supported on a shaft and is carried, and played vertically while marching. It has a set of thirteen bars arranged in a single row, making a full chromatic octave (E-flat). The frame is made of silver-plated metal and the bars are chrome-plated steel. The shaft is of turned wood painted in black, and the instrument has a beater included, with metal head.