A lone figure at a party reflects that the rest of the revelers don't know that "xylophones" with metal bars are actually glockenspiels.
No, they are called metallophones, glockenspiel is just one of them. Other common metallophones are the tubular bells and the vibraphone
Fixed the link for you π
I knew what this was before clicking.
Tubular, dude!
The vibraphone wants a word. Lionel Hampton is spinning in his grave.
The marimba has left the chat.
Sad Joe Porter noises
As far as I understand, a vibraphone is basically a glockenspiel with resonators
A xylophone has wooden bars.
A marimba is a xylophone with resonator tubes.
A glockenspiel is a xylophone with metal bars.
A metal marimba is a marimba with metal bars (or a glockenspiel with resonator tubes).
A vibraphone is a metal marimba with a motor spinning a disc inside the resonators which can create a vibrato and it has a damper (sustain pedal).
oooh I see, thanks for that clarification :)
No, vibraphone is the setting that discretely lets you know someone is calling you without annoying everyone around you.
As opposed to a xylophone made of dicks, which is a cockenspiel.
God damm xylophobes.
Glockenspiels are usually smaller than xylophones.
This always messed with me as a kid because for no reason I can come up with, xylophone made sense as the metal one and glockenspiel made sense as the wood one
It took more effort than it should to unlearn this
German Glocke = English bell = made out of metal
Literally Glockenspiel = bell game
Chiming in for clarification: Literally it's "bell game" but the word's meaning is more like "bells that play" or "bells to play with".
Oh yah, play with mein bells
Aw man I just spieled on mein glock
And this is why it is good advice not to think too much about that word as a German speaker.
Xylo=wood in Greek
Knowing this made this even more confusing though!
My fave part is when Ripley fights the xylophone queen in the mech outfit
How is it that this literally came up in conversation at the family get together over the weekend, and on Monday itβs being memed? Proof again this world is just a simulation and has memory limitations.
Is there an all encompassing term for xylophones and all the instruments that are "Xylophones" with X feature(s)?
Aren't those metallophones? Last I checked glockenspiels were a different (and much smaller) critter
So xylo ren is wood ren
I just bought a Glockenspiel (actually it's a set of concert bells) and was talking to the guy who sold it to me about this.