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A lone figure at a party reflects that the rest of the revelers don't know that "xylophones" with metal bars are actually glockenspiels.

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[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew what this was before clicking.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tubular, dude!

[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 points 1 year ago

TUBULAR BELLS!

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The vibraphone wants a word. Lionel Hampton is spinning in his grave.

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The marimba has left the chat.

[–] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Sad Joe Porter noises

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As far as I understand, a vibraphone is basically a glockenspiel with resonators

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 4 points 1 year ago

oooh I see, thanks for that clarification :)

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

No, vibraphone is the setting that discretely lets you know someone is calling you without annoying everyone around you.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

As opposed to a xylophone made of dicks, which is a cockenspiel.

[–] TrendigOsthyvel@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

God damm xylophobes.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Glockenspiels are usually smaller than xylophones.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

German Glocke = English bell = made out of metal

Literally Glockenspiel = bell game

[–] Flughoernchen@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh yah, play with mein bells

[–] hardaysknight@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Aw man I just spieled on mein glock

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And this is why it is good advice not to think too much about that word as a German speaker.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Xylo=wood in Greek

Knowing this made this even more confusing though!

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

My fave part is when Ripley fights the xylophone queen in the mech outfit

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

So xylo ren is wood ren

[–] Codeviper828@lemmus.org 2 points 3 months ago

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.