Dulcitone

The Dulcitone is a Scottish keyboard instrument in which the sound is produced by a series of tuning forks of different sizes. The strings are struck by hammers and felt excited to vibrate. The hammers are again moved over a keyboard. The instrument was designed by Thomas Machell of Glasgow and built by Thomas Machell & Sons in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Outstanding features of the Dulcitone are its portability and the fact that not detune the tuning forks, unlike the strings of a piano. The achievable with the instrument volume, however, is extremely limited, so that the Dulcitone - vote is taken regularly by a carillon.

A piece that was written for the Dulcitone is Song of the Bells by Vincent d' Indy from 1888.

Copies Received exist in New Zealand, where one can be found in Whittaker 's Musical Museum, and in Germany in the private collection of Simon Buser in Marburg.

In 2009, the British rock band Marillion used a Dulcitone, both in the recordings of your acoustic album Less Is More, as well as live on also titled with Less Is More tour ( see photo).