Percussion instrument#Definite pitch

Mallets, mallet instruments also (of English. Mallet mallets = ) called, are polyphonic tuned Aufschlagidiophone, which consist of several premium rods and belong to the percussion instruments. They are played with up to four mallets with a core of cork, wood, metal or plastic that is wrapped in some thread with. The range is at larger instruments close to the piano, also the arrangement of the plates look like a keyboard. The mallets are often used in orchestras as a solo or accompanying voices. The bar games include:

• Mallet with wooden claves ( Xylophone ): balafon
• Marimba ( marimba )
• TIMBELA
• Xylorimba
• Txalaparta

• Mallet with metal chimes ( Metalophones ): Fang Xiang
• Gender
• Carillon
• Jegogan
• Jublag
• Kulintang a Tiniok / Sarunay
• Lyre
• Ranat ek lek
• Ranat thum lek
• Saron ( instrument)
• Slentem
• Ugal
• Vibraphone

• Mallet with ensembles of stone hot lithopone.

• Among the premium rods ( with a single tone bar ): Hille Bille

• Other shaped Aufschlagidiophone are: Crotales
• Belltree
• Celesta
• Tubular Bells

In contrast, include bells and gongs to the impact vessels.

• Staff game