Dumb question about xylophones

Hey,

Lately i've been trying to figure out what a xylophone actually is.

My dad had an array of metal bars that you would hit with mallets.

We reffered to this as a xylophone, but it seems that a xylophone is wooden.

So i guess that would make it a glockenspiel? 

More confusion: wickipedia defines a xylophone as having wooden bars, yet

it shows the NBC "xylophone" (or whatever it is) as having metal ones.

Anyone care to clear this up for me? 

Xylophone, vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, are all members of the percussion ensemble with definite pitch, and played with mallets.

Xylophone: set of wooden bars. Until some years ago, it had no resonators, but today most of them have.

Marimba: set of rosewood bars thinner, longer and wider than the xylophone's. The resonators have always been part of it.

Vibraphone: metal bars, uses vibrato or tremolo produced by an electrically driven series of fans located on top of the resonators tubes. It also uses pedal.

Glockenspiel: steel bars. Usually played with brass mallet.

(Taken from Adler's book on Orchestration).

22 hours ago, Luis Hernández said:

Xylophone, vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, are all members of the percussion ensemble with definite pitch, and played with mallets.

 

 

Ok thanks, that cleared some up some

On 4/9/2017 at 5:19 AM, Luis Hernández said:

Xylophone, vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, are all members of the percussion ensemble with definite pitch, and played with mallets.

 

Xylophone: set of wooden bars. Until some years ago, it had no resonators, but today most of them have.

Marimba: set of rosewood bars thinner, longer and wider than the xylophone's. The resonators have always been part of it.

Vibraphone: metal bars, uses vibrato or tremolo produced by an electrically driven series of fans located on top of the resonators tubes. It also uses pedal.

Glockenspiel: steel bars. Usually played with brass mallet.

 

(Taken from Adler's book on Orchestration).

 

^^^Yep What he said