This table is problematic in that it doesn't distinguish between an
instrument with the bars laid-out like a keyboard and an instrument
actually played via a keyboard. The modern "orchestral
bells"/""glockenspiel"/(and their band world near-equivalent, the "bell
lyra") is laid-out like a keyboard (but in German-speaking countries,
not always in the 7+5 Halberstadt arrangement) and played with mallets,
and is used in some important repertoire: Steve Reich and Morton
Feldman, for example.
John Howell wrote:
On the contrary, three of the terms mean a keyboard instrument as the
single or one possible meaning.
-Cut-
OK, I just looked it up in A Practical Guide to Percussion
Terminology" by Russ Girsberger, and it's just as complicated as I
thought it would be.
Glöckchen: tubular bells; chimes
Glocke: bell
Glocken: chimes
Glockenartig: like a bell; bell-like
Glockenplatten: bell plates
Glockenspiel: Keyboard percussion instrument with steel or aluminum
bars. In printed music, it may refer to a Bell Lyra, as used in
German military music, or Orchestra Bells, as used in concert music.
Glockenspiel à clavier: (Fr.) keyboard glockenspiel
Glockenspiel mit tasten: keyboard glockenspiel.
Whew!!!!!
John
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