A lone figure at a party reflects that the rest of the revelers don’t know that “xylophones” with metal bars are actually glockenspiels.
The vibraphone wants a word. Lionel Hampton is spinning in his grave.
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).
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 😉
22:53 to be precise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0&t=1373
God damm xylophobes.
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”.
Pic of your cockenspiel?
