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vibraphone
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vibraphone

 or vibraharp

Percussion 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.

vibraphone (esp US), vibraharp
a percussion instrument, used esp in jazz, consisting of a set of metal bars placed over tubular metal resonators, which are made to vibrate electronically


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Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith's early career in the 1980s made the progress of a shooting star look leisurely: lifted off Edinburgh's tough Wester Hailes streets to Boston's Berklee School of Music at 17, out on tour with American vibraharp star Gary Burton two years later, becoming the first UK jazz musician ever to record for the famous Blue Note label at 22.
Jazz preview: Tommy Smith/Jacob Karlzon, Islay by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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