Please accept dijeroo for short as the name and the instrument are equally ridiculous. The name needs to be simplified. I think my version is a compromise that makes said ridiculous instrument more accessible plus it gives me the points I deser e. :D
I have decided in my life to simply call it dijeroo. Don't care that it is not the name, doesn't matter to me. I know I got it right and have no desire to spell or name such a ridiculously awkward I strumwnt. Now, if I could not spell the violin I would be embarrassed the other weird spelling issue I had is that I wanted to spell zither zyther because of lyre and zephyr. And he didn't accept my dynamic spelling. Oh well all that matters is I got it right. Creative geniuses don't care about spelling, or punctuation ;)
Well, this was interesting. I got only 9 of these. I haven't heard most of the rest. And for some, I have heard the name before, but I couldn't connect it with the musical instrument.
I knew it was a zither but was remembering the song...fly away on my zethyr. Why not zyther. It"s more exotic and I figured it was old so why not a weird spelling? Like lyre? My logic follows.
It's much easier to tell the difference when you actually hear the instruments being played. They sound completely different and normally require different mallets (xylophones give off better sound when used with rubber or plastic mallets, while marimbas are played mostly with yarn or wool mallets). Marimbas also tend to be slightly bigger.
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I was in the percussion section of my high school band class.
My Mom has played marimba since the 60's... they are larger than a xylophone... the keys are made of rosewood and are shaved to be tuned. Xylophone keys are metal (typically) Marimba has a much deeper and more rich tone. When playing with 4 mallets, and the sharps and flats keys are raised above the naturals, the performer has to spread and contract the width of the mallets in each hand as well as elevate and decline at the same time.
A glockenspiel is a type of metallophone. One other example of a metallophone that I know is the Vibraphone, kinda like a hybrid of a Marimba and Piano (in a way)
I am currently playing the marimba in my high school marching band, so it was obvious to me. However, I am much more confused by the six-mallet technique the guy pictured is using!
Here's an interesting side-by-side video of the two instruments, courtesy of Yamaha. How you're supposed to tell the difference just by looking I do not know. The commentary also seems to think (which makes sense to me) that the marimba is a type of xylophone.
I think payel123 is technically correct, that a marimba is a type of xylophone (a percussion instrument in which wood is struck to make a tuned tone), but I would tend to agree with the way the quiz is scored that that answer is not specific enough to warrant a point. Just as I wouldn't expect "bowed instrument" to be accepted for the 'ncello nor "annoying noisemaker for children" to be accepted for the kazoo, even if they are technically correct.
No, those are marching band snare drums. Snare drums in a drum set are thinner, but what makes it a snare drum are the snares (little ridged metal wires) that abut the bottom drum skin. That's what makes a snare sound sharper than a tom. Those are most definitely marching snares. Marching toms usually come in sets of three and have open bottoms.
Considering that an autoharp is a type of zither, I'm not entirely sure that he IS wrong. It looks to me like this is a different type of zither than the autoharp, but I'm not confident enough in my familiarity with this instrument to say for sure.
Yea I tried castagnettes. I guess in english you pronounce it completely different and do not pronounce it like ñ (or the french gn as is bourgogne. Not njets instead of nets. Wouldnt have thought so, interesting.
In dutch it is blokfluit and dwarsfluit. ( so sort of sideways flute).
And yea I was very surprised the first time I heard it was recorder in english and still have quite a lot of trouble with if. Even if I remember what it is called, all sorts of other images associated with recorder (taperecorder, record(player) pop up.) The two simply do not combine in my mind haha, eventhough I know what it is called.
Before the tuba was invented, there was the ophicleide, and before that, there was the serpent. It was considered the lowest member of the brass family. It's made of wood and leather, but it has a mouthpiece like a trombone, so you play it like a brass instrument. You can't tell from the picture, but it's big, about a meter tall. I've heard one in person. It sounds like a piece of wood that's trying to sound like a tuba and failing. The one I heard was made for Napoleon's army band and is now owned by a person in Virginia, USA. People still play them in ensembles that do authentic performances of renaissance-era music.
Saw the glocken spiel in marianplatx. Did not understand the fascination and I am a music aficinado. May be add the glocken spiel to your overrated tourist destinations. Like the acropolis. Dude, it's just a hill. A brown hill glocken spiel: bunch of mostly weird German tourists oohing and ahhi about a chime that sounds like a cheap jewelry box from The 70s.
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I was in the percussion section of my high school band class.
Also, "hurdy-gurdy" is quite possibly the best name for anything ever.
And yea I was very surprised the first time I heard it was recorder in english and still have quite a lot of trouble with if. Even if I remember what it is called, all sorts of other images associated with recorder (taperecorder, record(player) pop up.) The two simply do not combine in my mind haha, eventhough I know what it is called.