What is this instrument?

[Rempert]

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Originally Posted by elliot42 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Too low a register for a glockenspiel, thus my thinking it's a Vibraphone.

I get the feeling people are trying to identify two complete different parts of the arrangement. The note I'm hearing is actually too high a register for vibes, but within the top range of a glockenspiel (except it's a piano

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[elliot42]

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Originally Posted by Rempert /img/forum/go_quote.gif I get the feeling people are trying to identify two complete different parts of the arrangement. The note I'm hearing is actually too high a register for vibes, but within the top range of a glockenspiel (except it's a piano ).

Quite likely

 

[the.sting]

I'm going to agree with CDBacklash on this one. It sounds like the upper register of a piano to me, but slightly muted. I may be mistaken, but I believe I can hear a faint click of the hammer vibrating after impact as well, and the resonance of the chamber and other strings.

Then again, I played piano for a number of years too (though not at the conservatory level), so that may be just what I expect to hear.

Other ideas that crossed my mind were clinking horseshoes, or something like a hammer and an anvil (low mass striking higher mass). I rather like the idea of the spoon and teacup, too.