Xylophone vs. Glockenspiel

Xylophonenoun

(musical instrument) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

Xylophoneverb

To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.

Xylophoneverb

To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

Xylophonenoun

An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.

Xylophonenoun

An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood.

Xylophonenoun

a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets

Xylophone

The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, + φωνή—phōnē, , literally meaning ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel, the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano.

Glockenspielnoun

(musical instrument) A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.

Glockenspielnoun

An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.

Glockenspielnoun

a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers

Glockenspiel

The glockenspiel (German pronunciation: [ˈɡlɔkənˌʃpiːl] or [ˈɡlɔkŋ̍ˌʃpiːl], Glocken: bells and Spiel: Play) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone, although the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, thus making it a metallophone.