The "xylo" is greek for wood
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.
No, they are called metallophones, glockenspiel is just one of them. Other common metallophones are the tubular bells and the vibraphone
69 0 ReplyFixed the link for you 😉
8 0 Reply22:53 to be precise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0&t=1373
7 0 ReplyI knew what this was before clicking.
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TUBULAR BELLS!
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The vibraphone wants a word. Lionel Hampton is spinning in his grave.
32 0 ReplyThe marimba has left the chat.
13 0 ReplyAs far as I understand, a vibraphone is basically a glockenspiel with resonators
6 0 ReplyA 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).
15 0 ReplyAh, I see. It's Xylophones
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As opposed to a xylophone made of dicks, which is a cockenspiel.
13 0 ReplyGod damm xylophobes.
12 0 ReplyGlockenspiels are usually smaller than xylophones.
11 0 ReplyThis 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
9 0 ReplyGerman Glocke = English bell = made out of metal
Literally Glockenspiel = bell game
9 0 ReplyChiming in for clarification: Literally it's "bell game" but the word's meaning is more like "bells that play" or "bells to play with".
10 0 ReplyAnd this is why it is good advice not to think too much about that word as a German speaker.
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Xylo=wood in Greek
Knowing this made this even more confusing though!
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My fave part is when Ripley fights the xylophone queen in the mech outfit
8 1 ReplyHow 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.
7 1 ReplyPic of your cockenspiel?
5 0 ReplyIs there an all encompassing term for xylophones and all the instruments that are "Xylophones" with X feature(s)?
5 0 ReplyI guess, it would be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_percussion_instrument
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Aren't those metallophones? Last I checked glockenspiels were a different (and much smaller) critter
5 1 ReplySo xylo ren is wood ren
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