A lone figure at a party reflects that the rest of the revelers don't know that "xylophones" with metal bars are actually glockenspiels.
Aren't those metallophones? Last I checked glockenspiels were a different (and much smaller) critter
As opposed to a xylophone made of dicks, which is a cockenspiel.
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.
So xylo ren is wood ren
My fave part is when Ripley fights the xylophone queen in the mech outfit
Is there an all encompassing term for xylophones and all the instruments that are "Xylophones" with X feature(s)?
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
Xylo=wood in Greek
Knowing this made this even more confusing though!
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".
Oh yah, play with mein bells
Aw man I just spieled on mein glock
And this is why it is good advice not to think too much about that word as a German speaker.
God damm xylophobes.
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 😉
I knew what this was before clicking.
Tubular, dude!
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, vibraphone is the setting that discretely lets you know someone is calling you without annoying everyone around you.
oooh I see, thanks for that clarification :)
Ah, I see. It's Xylophones
The marimba has left the chat.
Sad Joe Porter noises