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vibraphoneor vibraharpPercussion instrument with tuned metal bars, arranged keyboard-style like the xylophone. Felt or wool beaters are used to strike the bars, giving a soft, mellow tone quality. Each bar has a resonating tube suspended vertically below it to sustain the tone; small electrically powered spinning disks at the top of the resonators produce a vibrato effect by rapidly closing and opening the resonators. Invented c. 1920, it soon became a popular jazz instrument. |
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The record is as though it was from the swingin' '60s, with vibraphones, weird sounds, bongos, loops, effects, etc, and it's catchy as all get out. ``I began collecting vibraphones and old recording gear. At the opposite extreme intellectually is Denis Mariotte's charming score, much of which is played live by the dancers on such instruments as vibraphones, harmonicas, xylophones, and toy pianos, in a powerful metaphor for the serious, sometimes sinister application of innocent pursuits. |
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