*trying to differentiate the instruments*
(by the way, I'm in band at my school, and we have 5 different glockenspiel-ish instruments)
wooden bars-marimba, or glocks
metal- there's a big xylophone that has this weird mechanism attached (like a whammy bar but for a xylophone) and a small one
(maybe 3ft across) that is so annoying because its so loud
plastic/resiny-stuff- another xylophone
then, we have this xylophone-esque thing, but the bars are not bars, they're CIRCLES!
I'm such a band geek . . .