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Author: Kate
Date: 2001-12-31 18:26
Hi, I KNOW this is a clarinet page, and I am a clarinetist, I just passed grade 8 (somehow) but I figured cos this is a musicy page someone could help me! I looked on the internet but NO ONE will give me a straight answer, and my music teacher won't tell me!!!!!! What's the difference between a xylophone and glockenspiel??????? I know one's wooden, I just can't remember which!! Please tell me cos I've got my GCSE mocks in a week!!!!!!!! Need a quick answer!
And completely unrelated, are plasticover reeds good? Do they last longer? I have a concert in three weeks and am nearly out of reeds, so should I risk it and buy some I've never tried before or stick to good old Rico Royals???????
Thanx, and have a brilliant new year.
Good clarineting as everyone seems to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Author: FT
Date: 2001-12-31 18:45
I THINK that the xylophone is wooden and the glockenspiel is metal. I don't know about the plasticover reeds, I never tried them!!!!
hope this helps a little!
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Author: Kim L.
Date: 2001-12-31 18:51
What does the grade you play mean? What level music are you playing? What composers?
Thanks,
Kim L.
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2001-12-31 19:46
Oh my, three questions to answer at once!!
I only have the answer to one: The xylophone is wooden and not quite as portable.
The glockenspiel is metal and quite portable. They also go by the name of "bells" if that helps.
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Author: Sara
Date: 2001-12-31 20:19
Bells and glockenspiel are two different things. They sound the same, but the bell are made for concerts and the glockenspiel is for marching. The glockenspiel is made to be put on a harness with the low notes close to your body and the high one father out. The glockenspiel has an odd shape to it where as the bells are a rectangle. The glockenspielhas metle bars on it.
The xylophone has wood bars and is ushally only used in concert settings. The xylophone ushally has tubes under the bars unlike the glockenspiel or bells.
As far as plasticover reeds I have heard they are good for marching band because they do not break as easy, but other then that I do not know. GOOD LUCK!
Home this helps,
Sara
P.S. If all else fails look at the pictures in an instrument catolog.
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Author: Ken
Date: 2001-12-31 21:28
The xylophone is most often used in the Symphony Orchestra and/or in the Wind/Concert Band. It is also the "smaller cousin" to the marimba. "Bar" material is usually wood, preferably Honduras rosewood. It has metal/cylindrical tubes extending below the bars/keys called "resonators". These resonators are also removable and the instrument can be played without them. The instrument is keyed in C like the piano but sounds one octave higher than written.
A "glockenspiel" is basically glorified "concert bells". They are portable and strapped/played upwards from the waist at an angle. They are primarily used in the marching band and/or drum and bugle corps. They have "metal alloy" bars, a 4-octave range (if I remember correctly) and played with metal-balled mallets. They also possess a more brilliant, incisive tone than the symphonic concert bells.
Plastic cover reeds are disposable, "slap 'em on and play 'em as is" reeds. If you're in a pinch, go ahead and get a couple to keep in reserve ... just make sure you buy the "same" strength reed you normally play on. I'd recommend to keep working on/breaking in your Royal Ricos up until the gig and if at all possible still use one of them.
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Author: Kate
Date: 2001-12-31 21:38
Thanx so much!!!!!!!!! You've been really helpful!!!!
Oh, and to Kim: Grade 8 is the top grade in Associated Board examinations, before Diploma etc., and I play all sorts of stuff; from Mozart in orchestras to heavy metal in concert bands!!! Grade 8 is advanced. I don't know if it's universal, but it's the most widely used one in England. Along with Trinity.
A supposedly "advanced" clarinettist not knowing the difference between a glockenspiel and xylophone......oh dear!!!!!!!
1.5 hours till 2002!!!!!
7 days till mocks.....AAAAARGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Thankyou again,
Kate
:-)
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Author: SCD
Date: 2002-01-01 01:47
Just some trivia... "Xylo" is from the Greek root meaning wood. For example, a xylophage is something (like a termite) that eats wood (xylo-wood + phage-eat). Xylophone is sound (phone) from wood (xylo).
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Author: Charlie Coleman
Date: 2002-01-01 03:30
Hello, Kate - My graddaughter Kate used Rico Plasticovers that I got for her. I like them because they respond like cane, but don't need to worry about soaking. They are always
ready to blow. Good Luck - Charlie C
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Author: willie
Date: 2002-01-01 06:15
I have a Glockenspiel sitting right next to me right now and it has only about 2.5 octaves on it. The Xylophone is longer, wood bars, and has about 4 octaves and is usually equiped with wheels to make it portable.
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