Dulcitone
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A dulcitone is a keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a range of tuning forks, which vibrate when struck by felt-covered hammers activated by the keyboard. The instrument was designed by Thomas Machell of Glasgow and manufactured by the firm of Thomas Machell & Sons during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
A significant feature of the dulcitone was its portability, a product of its lightweight and compact construction and the fact that the tuning forks (unlike, for instance, the strings of a piano) were not prone to going out of tune. Surviving examples exist as far afield as New Zealand, where one is preserved in the Whittaker's Musical Museum.
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See also:
Rhodes piano, technically an electrically amplified dulcitone.
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