This postcard from 1906 illustrates the method of early lithophone performances in Luray Caverns, Virginia, United States

A lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a plurality of rocks or pieces of rock, in which musical notes are sounded by striking one or more of the rocks in combination (harmony) or succession (melody). Image File history File links Size of this preview: 500 × 331 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 331 pixel, file size: 126 KB, MIME type: image/png)This postcard was likely for sale at Luray Caverns in the early 1900s. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 500 × 331 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 331 pixel, file size: 126 KB, MIME type: image/png)This postcard was likely for sale at Luray Caverns in the early 1900s. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ...

A rudimentary form of lithophone is the rock gong, usually a natural rock formation opportunistically adapted by indigenous peoples to produce tones for a variety of purposes. Examples include the rock gong on Mfangano Island, Kenya, in Lake Victoria. Mfangano Island lies in the eastern part of Lake Victoria, at the mouth of the Winam Gulf. ... Lake Victoria and the Great Rift Valley Lake Victoria height variation The lake as seen from space, looking west, with other members of the African Great Lakes forming an arc in the middle distance. ...

Lithophones dating back to ancient times have been discovered in Vietnam and have been revived in the 20th century. The ritual music of Korea features the use of stone chimes called pyeongyeong, derived from the Chinese bianqing. A pyeongyeong (편경 pyeon-gyeong) is a traditional Korean percussion instrument, a kind of stone chime formed of sixteen stone slabs suspended from a frame. ... Bianqing (Simplified Chinese: 编磬; Traditional Chinese: 編磬; Pinyin: biān qìng) is an ancient Chinese musical instrument consisting of a set of L-shaped flat stone chimes, played melodically. ...

One of the most widely-known examples of a lithophone is The Great Stalacpipe Organ of Luray Caverns, which uses 37 stalactites to produce the tones of the Western scale. This undated album likely was recorded in the late 1960s from the typeface and the clothing featured on the cover. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... In music, a scale is a collection of tones. ...

The Musical Stones of Skiddaw

The Musical Stones of Skiddaw from Cumbria, England, and the Ringing Rocks of Pennsylvania are other well known lithophones. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 729 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1500 × 1234 pixel, file size: 270 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author - Keswick Museum, Source - Instrument in Keswick Museums Collection Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 729 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1500 × 1234 pixel, file size: 270 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author - Keswick Museum, Source - Instrument in Keswick Museums Collection Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the... A history of the Musical Stones of Skiddaw. ... Cumbria (IPA: ), created in 1974, is a county in the North West region of England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Ringing Rocks is a phenomenon where rocks have the curious property of resonating like a bell when struck with a hammer or other object. ... Official language(s) English, Pennsylvania Dutch Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ...

The German composer Carl Orff calls for a lithophone called Steinspiel in his later works. The British composer Will Menter[1] invented the llechiphone, a marimba with keys made of slate, while working in North Wales.[2] Other slate lithophones, called stonaphones, are made in the U.S. state of Maine by Jim Doble out of recycled slate roofing.[3] Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a German composer, most famous for Carmina Burana (1937). ... The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. ... Slate Thick slate fragment Slate roof Slate is a fine-grained, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low grade regional metamorphism. ... Approximate extent of North Wales North Wales (known in some archaic texts as Northgalis) is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales. ... Official language(s) None (English de facto; French is also an administrative language) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 39th  - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²)  - Width 210 miles (338 km)  - Length 320 miles (515 km)  - % water 13. ... A roof tiled in imitation of thatch at Croyde, north Devon, England Rooftops in Vietnam A roof is the top covering of a building that prevents the ingress of weather into the building interior. ...

Other similar musical instruments

The lithophone is similar to the glockenspiel, tubular glockenspiel, metallophone, xylophone, marimba, and to the glass percussion instruments created by Barry Prophet of The Music Gallery, not to be confused with the verrophone (a musical instrument that makes sound by rubbing, not by hitting, glass). Most orchestral glockenspiels are mounted in a case. ... Generally speaking, a metallophone is any musical instrument consisting of tuned metal bars which are struck to make sound, usually with a mallet. ... The xylophone (from the Greek meaning wooden sound) is a musical instrument in the percussion family which probably originated in Indonesia (Nettl 1956, p. ... The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. ... A verrophone is a musical instrument, invented in 1983, by Reckert, in which open-ended glass tubes are arranged in various sizes (usually in a chromatic scale, arranged from large to small, like the pipes of a pipe organ). ...