What is the difference between a xylophone and a glockenspiel?

The glockenspiel, also called “orchestra bells” or simply “bells” has metal bars and no resonators. It sounds TWO octaves higher than the written notes. ... The hard thing is to tell a marimba from a xylophone at sight, as they look very similar with the wooden bars and tube resonators. read more

The main difference between the xylophone and glockenspiel is that the bars of the xylophone are wooden whereas the bars in the glockenspiel are made of steel. Hence their names, glockenspiel and xylophone ‘“ glock in Germany refers to ‘bells’ whereas xylos in xylophone refers to ‘wood’. read more

As nouns the difference between xylophone and glockenspiel is that xylophone is a musical instrument made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like hammer while glockenspiel is a musical instrument of the percussion family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch. read more