LP Latin Percussion Flex-a-Tone Standard LP1-5

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Added to this, however, are two wooden balls on either side, thus sounding when the “metal blade” as such is pressed/struck by thumb, combining thus a musical/singing saw with bell/glockenspiel-like sounds, with glissando (or trembling, quivering) effects. Its melodic possibilities are less used or explored, though tension-building, semi-melodies are heard, mostly when introducing song parts like choruses and bridges. This method give the player greater control of the sound of the flexatone as it eliminates the need to shake the instrument. Later, with the New Roots revival this trend was reversed luckily, to which the roles like the mentioned new-generation Jamaican percussionist in Reggae, like Hector Lewis, attest.

The same occurred too, especially in Western countries, with other instruments (horns, string instruments, pianos), largely therefore “modernizations”. Act 2, Scene VIII, "opens with a long treble melismatic line of quite astounding expression and profundity—qualities in no small way attributable to its scoring for saxophone and musical saw. The modern violin might have been invented as such in Northern Italy, but violin-like instruments were long common in several cultures, including in Africa. The Flexatone is a modern percussion instrument consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle.Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. The sound of this instrument can be compared to that of the musical saw, a 'flexible' tone that changes smoothly in pitch. On some albums the synth effects and sounds (“bleeps”, so to speak) took over the role of acoustic instruments, like percussion, leaving less space for their additions.

My list is just illustrative and informative, and not meant as exhaustive nor as representative as such. The Flexatone is used in Reggae from different decades since the 1970s, both in Old and New Roots, as in the 1980s Rub-a-Dub or Rockers sound, and in new (not too digital) Reggae, after 1990.It was introduced as a new instrument, making 'jazz jazzier' and announced as combining the tone effect of musical saw, orchestra bells, and song whistle.