What is a Glockenspiel exactly?
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Topic: What is a Glockenspiel exactly?
Posted By: natedoppler
Subject: What is a Glockenspiel exactly?
Date Posted: September 18 2008 at 13:47
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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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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: September 18 2008 at 13:53
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glockenspiel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glockenspiel |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: September 18 2008 at 13:59
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A Glockenspiel is like a Xylophone but instead of wooden bars,steel bars are used. ------------- 
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Posted By: meptune
Date Posted: October 06 2008 at 12:25
| ^ 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". |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 12:07
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...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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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 19:05
Don't listen to them, it's some form of guitar. 
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Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 11:55
| I don't know, but Sigur Ros use it tooooo much! |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 13:06
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. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Alucard wrote:Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 13:11
Would 'Play of Bells' be a more acurate translation? Subtle, but still... ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 19:00
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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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: October 20 2008 at 07:51
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
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