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    Posted: September 18 2008 at 13:47

I noticed the instrument "Glockenspiel" on an Aimee Mann song the other day. I think it was the remake of "One is the Loneliest Number" on the Magnolia soundtrack.

Can someone explain what it is, or post a picture of one? It sounds kind of interesting...


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glockenspiel
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A Glockenspiel is like a Xylophone but instead of wooden bars,steel bars are used.

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^ A little more specifically, it's also called a Bell Lyre because it has a lyre shaped frame and plays in the same register as orchestra bells. Like a xylophone yes, but it only has about a two and a half octave range topping out around piano hi C. It's intended to be a marching band instrument, having a little stump at the base that fits into a belt the player wears over the shoulder. In marhing band, you support it with one hand and play it with a single mallet in the other. If you look at some old photos of the prog band Kansas, you'll see drummer Phil Ehart with one on a stand next to his kit. Also, on Jethro Tull's Bursting Out album, on the song Skating Away, Ian Anderson credits drummer Barriemore Barlow as playing "the tiny but mighty glockenspiel".
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Points: 3888 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 08 2008 at 12:07
...just for the record the German word Glockenspiel means "Game Of Bells " (Orchestra Bells) and apart from designing the tuned percussion  instrument  the same word is used in Geman for Carillons in Bell Towers (if it's linked to a mechanism also a Spieluhr).
 
BTW it's not only a marching band instrument (and only the marching band one has the Lyra form) the Glockenspiel is a popular tuned percussion table instrument  in its small version.
 
Quite interesting The German composer Carl Orff  (Carmina Burana) made percussion instruments popular in German schools in the 1903's. In his  Schulwerk (1930-1935) he presents a school programm based on rhythm ( gymnastics, dance and music) using a lot of percussion instruments like Glockenspiel, woodblocks, tambourine etc. Having become famous for  the Carmina Burana he is nowadays more critized for his cooperation with the Nazis.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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I don't know, but Sigur Ros use it tooooo much!
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Originally posted by Alucard Alucard wrote:

 
Quite interesting The German composer Carl Orff  (Carmina Burana) made percussion instruments popular in German schools in the 1903's. In his  Schulwerk (1930-1935) he presents a school programm based on rhythm ( gymnastics, dance and music) using a lot of percussion instruments like Glockenspiel, woodblocks, tambourine etc. Having become famous for  the Carmina Burana he is nowadays more critized for his cooperation with the Nazis.
 


Which has not been proven ... personally, I doubt it. I think it's more likely that his music - especially the Carmina Burana - was simply endorsed by them.
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Originally posted by Alucard Alucard wrote:

...just for the record the German word Glockenspiel means "Game Of Bells " (Orchestra Bells


Would 'Play of Bells' be a more acurate translation? Subtle, but still...
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Originally posted by meptune meptune wrote:

^ A little more specifically, it's also called a Bell Lyre because it has a lyre shaped frame and plays in the same register as orchestra bells. Like a xylophone yes, but it only has about a two and a half octave range topping out around piano hi C. It's intended to be a marching band instrument, having a little stump at the base that fits into a belt the player wears over the shoulder. In marhing band, you support it with one hand and play it with a single mallet in the other. If you look at some old photos of the prog band Kansas, you'll see drummer Phil Ehart with one on a stand next to his kit. Also, on Jethro Tull's Bursting Out album, on the song Skating Away, Ian Anderson credits drummer Barriemore Barlow as playing "the tiny but mighty glockenspiel".
 
Wow! I didn't know it was a marching band instrument, and I play it! Well, my school and my region in terms of marching band isn't terribly educated but oh well.
 
But when I play it for our marching band show this year, I'm in the pit with a xylophone, bells, and a shaker. No marching necessary.

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Points: 3888 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 07:51
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by Alucard Alucard wrote:

 
Quite interesting The German composer Carl Orff  (Carmina Burana) made percussion instruments popular in German schools in the 1903's. In his  Schulwerk (1930-1935) he presents a school programm based on rhythm ( gymnastics, dance and music) using a lot of percussion instruments like Glockenspiel, woodblocks, tambourine etc. Having become famous for  the Carmina Burana he is nowadays more critized for his cooperation with the Nazis.
 


Which has not been proven ... personally, I doubt it. I think it's more likely that his music - especially the Carmina Burana - was simply endorsed by them.
 
hmm,
 what is proven :  Carl Orff composed for the olympic games  of 1936 the ouverture "Kinderreigen" and another "official" composition in 1939,  which puts him nearly  in the same position as filmmaker  Leni Riefenstahl, who shot among other "documentaries'  "Fest Der Feude", the official 1936 olympic games film and  who had until her death refused to accept ,that she furnished propaganda...
 
BTW Orff was only classified as Mitläufer (conformist follower) after the war and could continue to work while Riefenstahl couldn't work anymore in Germany
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Edited by Alucard - October 20 2008 at 09:40
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