Hello everyone!

[Karlos]

Hi dude and welcome to the amisylum :-D

Username too long, eh? Well, that particular mallet comes up as "Glocken" on my synth, so you got off lightly :-)

[Karlos]

@odin

One simply doesn't know what you mean, old boy ;-)

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Isn't a xylophone a combination of wood/metal and muted compared to a glockenspiel?

[Karlos]

justthatgood wrote:

@Karlos

Yipe a Glockenspiel is 2 1/2 to 3 octaves of piercing metal (mostly ferrous), like steel.  I think name means to play the bells or something

Xylophone is all hardwood, consisting of about 3 octaves or more (depends on the kind of xylophone), with the name in greek meaning xylo- wood , phone- sound,voice, whatever

I see. That definately explains the xylophone sound on my synth. At first I was gonna say "all wood" then I thought, "hang on, that's a marimba, isn't it?"

Tune in next week folks, for more mallet percussion action when we uncover "just what is a celesta?"