vibraphone
Also vibes . a musical percussion instrument that resembles a marimba and is played with mallets, but that has metal instead of wooden bars and has a set of electrically powered resonators for sustaining the tone or creating a vibrato.
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Origin of vibraphone
1- Also called vibraharp .
Other words from vibraphone
- vi·bra·phon·ist [vahy-bruh-foh-nist, vahy-brof-uh-], /ˈvaɪ brəˌfoʊ nɪst, vaɪˈbrɒf ə-/, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for vibraphone
esp US vibraharp (ˈvaɪbrəˌhɑːp)
/ (ˈvaɪbrəˌfəʊn) /
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
Derived forms of vibraphone
- vibraphonist, noun
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