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McLilith · Post by **McLilith** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:34 pm

shamann wrote:It's a glockenspiel, eh. I've never seen one with the second row of bars like that. Always assumed the extra meant it was something else. So now I know.

If you do a Google Image search, you will find that most of the glockenspiels have two rows of bars, although there are variations. Also, some glockenspiels apparently have resonator tubes beneath the bars, while other glocks do not.

Glockenspiels are also sometimes referred to by different names, such as orchestra bells, and the bell lyre or bell lyra.

You might want to take a quick look at these:

Glockenspiel Discription with audio samples

Large Glockenspiel Image, showing resonators

Large Glockenspiel Image - No Resonators

A Bell Lyre page]

take care,
McLilith

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:40 pm

McLilith wrote:I sampled my girlfriend's glock.

o'malley · Post by **o'malley** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:42 pm

McLilith wrote: [/url]

Thats Awsome!!!

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:49 pm

S_A_P® wrote:I would love to have a vibraphone, that is one instrument that doesnt get enough use...

again I sold one once and I agree, too bad I didn't sell it too me (actually I would of sold it to my computer alter ego...Roland Dube...employees couldn't buy used gear for like 6 months). At the time I neverd considered the possibilies of it. Now in hindsight it is very cool and would of been also good for exposure to music for my daughter....

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:54 pm

Gymnopedies wrote:
Chase Altertone wrote:
shamann wrote:So is that a vibraphone or xylophone. I'm never certain of the difference (too tired to look it up, so don't make me)?
vibraphones/Marimbas kick ass and have wooden bars. With soft mallets you can make almost drone/pad-like sounds on one. I personally love the marimba.

xylophones have metal bars and are almost exclusively played with hard mallets.
Actually, Xylophones/Marimbas have wood bars...

Vibraphones have metal bars and a motor that turns a cam over the resonator tubes that produce a vibrato.
metalaphone+vibrato= vibraphone.

seeing how you're right about the Vibraphone I'll assume you're correct on the rest...I was not aware of the fact that xylophones had only wood bars...

o'malley · Post by **o'malley** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:09 pm

Hink wrote:I was not aware of the fact that xylophones had only wood bars...

I've played on some with plastic looking bars or some type of resin or something. Sounded like crap though. Wood is definatly the best IMO.

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:14 pm

Yeah, xylophones have wooden bars and glockenspiels have metal bars as it translates as "bell play" (kind of) from german.

Not many wooden bells...

Peel · Post by **Peel** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:00 pm

Properly speaking, it's not a xylophone if the the bars aren't wood (Greek "xylo-" = "wood").
("metal xylophone" = metallophone)

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:04 pm

thanx guys...yah learn something new everyday

o'malley · Post by **o'malley** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:29 pm

Almost forgot about the Celesta! since we're on the subject of mallet instruments:

It has metal bars like a Glockenspiel, but it is played with a piano keyboard. Yamaha makes a super nice one!

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:56 pm

o'malley wrote:Almost forgot about the Celesta! since we're on the subject of mallet instruments:

It has metal bars like a Glockenspiel, but it is played with a piano keyboard. Yamaha makes a super nice one!

makes or made?

o'malley · Post by **o'malley** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:04 pm

Hink wrote:makes or made?

Makes!

http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/Con ... ES,00.html

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:11 pm

haha im so retarded i got them mixed up. nvm then

O'malley yea i still have the pad I never returned it.

o'malley · Post by **o'malley** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:17 pm

Chase Altertone wrote:O'malley yea i still have the pad I never returned it.

yeah, I stole a stick bag and a bunch of mallets from my high school. I should have stole their Fender Rhodes though.

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:33 pm

So, where's samples of the individual notes?
I'll gladly patch them together

Look what I just bought ;D