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 "xylo" is greek for wood
A lone figure at a party reflects that the rest of the revelers don't know that "xylophones" with metal bars are actually glockenspiels.
29 Comments
infeeeee@lemm.ee · 69 pts · 2y
No, they are called metallophones, glockenspiel is just one of them. Other common metallophones are the tubular bells and the vibraphone
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Fixed the link for you 😉
infeeeee@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
22:53 to be precise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0&t=1373
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
I knew what this was before clicking.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Tubular, dude!
OozingPositron@feddit.cl · 2 pts · 2y
TUBULAR BELLS!
Cagi@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 2y
The vibraphone wants a word. Lionel Hampton is spinning in his grave.
Fester@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 2y
The marimba has left the chat.
meekah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
As far as I understand, a vibraphone is basically a glockenspiel with resonators
bstix@feddit.dk · 15 pts · 2y
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).
meekah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
oooh I see, thanks for that clarification :)
Slovene@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 2y
No, vibraphone is the setting that discretely lets you know someone is calling you without annoying everyone around you.
praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Clbull@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
As opposed to a xylophone made of dicks, which is a cockenspiel.
TrendigOsthyvel@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
God damm xylophobes.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Glockenspiels are usually smaller than xylophones.
9point6@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
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
pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y
German Glocke = English bell = made out of metal
Literally Glockenspiel = bell game
Flughoernchen@feddit.de · 10 pts · 2y
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".
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 2y
Oh yah, play with mein bells
hardaysknight@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Aw man I just spieled on mein glock
menemen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
And this is why it is good advice not to think too much about that word as a German speaker.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Xylo=wood in Greek
Knowing this made this even more confusing though!
synae@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 2y
My fave part is when Ripley fights the xylophone queen in the mech outfit
invertedspear@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
How is it that this literally came up in conversation at the family get together over the weekend, and on Monday it’s being memed? Proof again this world is just a simulation and has memory limitations.
10_0@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
numberfour002@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Is there an all encompassing term for xylophones and all the instruments that are "Xylophones" with X feature(s)?
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
I guess, it would be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_percussion_instrument
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 4 pts · 2y
Aren't those metallophones? Last I checked glockenspiels were a different (and much smaller) critter
x4740N@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
So xylo ren is wood ren
Codeviper828@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 1y
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.