Bell Tree

About Bell Tree

A bell tree, also known as Pakistan tree bells or Chinese bell tree (often confused with the mark tree), is a percussion instrument, consisting of vertically nested inverted metal bowls. The bowls, placed on a vertical rod, are arranged roughly in order of pitch. The number of bowls can vary between approximately 14 and 28. An effective glissando is produced by sliding a triangle beater, a glockenspiel mallet, or a xylophone mallet down the length of the tree. The bells are usually pitched to microtonal intervals and do not represent any formal scale. When a glissando is played, the inexactness of the order of the bowls' pitch is unnoticeable, merely creating a fuller sound. The bell tree is often used to accentuate the start or end of passages of music with a "bright", "shimmer" effect, adding complexity. Chick Corea and his group Return To Forever occasionally used the bell tree (i.e. album Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy), as has the group Santana. Isaac Howie has sometimes used the bell tree in his compositions. The classic rock band America utilized one in Bell Tree, a song named for the instrument, found on their 1975 album Hearts. more »

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Eyes 
Holdin' back the tears 
That they've held for years 

How can I tell you? 
I don't want to make you cry 
Why should I even try? 
Why should I even try? 

Days 
Where'd you go so fast 
Fin'lly lost at last 

How can I tell you? 
I don't want to let you down 
Why should I even try? 
Why should I even try? 

How can I tell you? 
I don't want to let you down 
Why should I even try? 
Why should I even try? 

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America

America is an English-American folk rock band, that originally consisted of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens, when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring No. 1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist. Their recording success stretched throughout the 1970s; some of the band's best known songs are "A Horse with No Name", "Sister Golden Hair" (both of which reached No. 1), "Ventura Highway", "Tin Man", "Daisy Jane", and "Lonely People". George Martin produced seven of their albums. more »

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