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vibraphone Mus.|ˈvaɪbrəfəʊn|
[f. vibration, vibrato, etc. + -phone 1.]
A percussion instrument consisting of a series of metal bars, arranged as in a xylophone, and characterized by the vibrato that can be given to the notes, an effect produced either by electrically rotated vanes in the tube resonators under the bars or electronically.
1926[see marimbaphone]. 1929Melody Maker Apr. 359/1 Lester takes a Vibraphone solo. 1934S. R. Nelson All about Jazz ii. 51 The leading drummers..are expert on the xylophone and vibraphone. 1957L. Feather Bk. Jazz xvi. 134 The vibraphone, like the xylophone, was an instrument long associated with novelty music. 1966Listener 10 Mar. 364 The programme was completed by Stockhausen's Refrain, for piano, celesta, and vibraphone. 1978P. Griffiths Conc. Hist. Mod. Music ix. 137 The vibraphone is used as a substitute for the gamelan while xylorimba and percussion suggest the influence of black African music.
Hence ˈvibraphonist, a player on the vibraphone.
1929Melody Maker Dec. 1119/1 Amateur vibraphonists are requested not to attempt to copy it! 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Detroit Suppl.) 29/2 How else could he have known that Milt Jackson would become one of the world's greatest vibraphonists. |