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Andy @slrpnk.net

1y ago

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.

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No, they are called metallophones, glockenspiel is just one of them. Other common metallophones are the tubular bells and the vibraphone
- tubular bells
  Fixed the link for you 😉
  
  22:53 to be precise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0&t=1373
  
  I knew what this was before clicking.
- TUBULAR BELLS!

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).

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".
  
  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 it’s being memed? Proof again this world is just a simulation and has memory limitations.

Aren't those metallophones? Last I checked glockenspiels were a different (and much smaller) critter

Is there an all encompassing term for xylophones and all the instruments that are "Xylophones" with X feature(s)?
- I guess, it would be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_percussion_instrument

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.

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