What a real instruments are used in this old children's song?

[vurt]

May I respectfully disagree? The xylophone is fairly common.

i imagine they'll become rarer if fuel prices keep going up! lotta heat from a xylophone...

it does sound more wooden, softer edge to the attack transient than with a glockenspiel.

[juno987654321]

May I respectfully disagree? The xylophone is fairly common.

Hahahaha! If it IS your wooden xylophone which is yet to be proven... Still the single SOUND in its relative isolation is one that I am not used to as opposed to the sounds that come from all the other instruments.
Very artful how you twisted the meaning of the abovementioned!

[BertKoor]

This cannot be proven beyond doubt I think. You only have my (often challenged) opinion to go by.


(waiting for vurt to say it's clearly a didgeridoo)

[juno987654321]

OK, I got this now. I've used a rompler that has its samples of real instruments.
The targeted sound is in f sharp for sure.
I've tried all kinds of versions that made sense. Glockenspiel and Marimba I didn't sample because it's clearly none of those.
There was one instrument called alto Glockenspiel which I believe was just their name for a Xylophone (?). It's no Glockenspiel then any more, is it?
In my opinion the vibraphone sound fits best but some of those Xylophone sounds are just almost the same as the vibraphone sounds if hit very softly. I used velocities that may best fit the target sound.
Vibraphone sounds have that sustain but they can also be dampened and made to fade out as you like, can't they?
Listen to the 6 samples I recorded and decide for yourselves which one comes closest.
Vibraphone might have won the race by a picometer. But let me add that it's not a proof. The real instruments may still differ 2 picometers in sound from those samples.

mysterious sound in f sharp.rar

[BertKoor]

Glockenspiel has metal bars: ting ting.
I've said before this here is made of wood: tok tok.

Xylo Phone is old Greek for Wood Sound.

[vurt]

Glockenspiel has metal bars: ting ting.
I've said before this here is made of wood: tok tok.

Xylo Phone is old Greek for Wood Sound.

bell speak for glockenspiel.

[vurt]

This cannot be proven beyond doubt I think. You only have my (often challenged) opinion to go by.


(waiting for vurt to say it's clearly a didgeridoo)

saw an orchestra with one the other day, not something you see every day

[juno987654321]

Sorry, I confused this. In German we usually call a bigger metallophone a "Xylophon" though it's a misnomer. So, what I actually meant was that the bigger alto Glockenspiel played at low velocities in that sample I have also imitates the sound pretty convincingly but it's made from metal.

If you hit all of those metallic instruments (alto Glockenspiel/metallophone, vibraphone, probably also chimes) very softly with a soft mellet so that the transient stays soft it will sound much like the original sound I believe. That's what the samples show.

I don't know if the original sound has that woody sound character to it but the sample of the vibraphone almost sounded identical to that in the video. Also, when played softly the differences seem to merge away.

What is it then that makes you side against the metallic sound sources? You think it's still slightly more woody in tonal character?

Edit:

Vibraphone has some sustain. So it was imho a xylophone (wood, not metal)

Are we referring to the same sound? That may be the confusion. The sound I was referring to lasts for almost 2 seconds (!) so it would need a real loooong sustain. That was something I was also missing in the samples I took. Now I can hear some very short percussive woody sounds that I didn't even realize at first. Maybe you had those in mind?

[BertKoor]

what other instruments can be heard, of course, apart from the percussion elements?

Vibraphone (now I hear it somewhere near the beginning indeed) and xylophone (prominent when the dog walks, stretches and springs back) both ARE percussion instruments, so ...

[juno987654321]

Hahaha, Bert, that was most confusing! You now hear my vibraphone sound and I can hear the xylophone sounds you were referring to all the time. We were just talking about different parts in the song. Funny!

[jamcat]

I love a happy ending.