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vibraphone
[ vahy-bruh-fohn ]
noun
- 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.
vibraphone
/ ˈvaɪbrəˌfəʊn; ˈvaɪbrəˌhÉ‘Ëp /
noun
- 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
- ˈ±¹¾±²ú°ù²¹ËŒ±è³ó´Ç²Ô¾±²õ³Ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±¹¾±Â·²ú°ù²¹Â·±è³ó´Ç²Ô·¾±²õ³Ù [vahy, -br, uh, -foh-nist, vahy-, brof, -, uh, -], noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of vibraphone1
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Example Sentences
They became his weapon of choice after picking up the vibraphone as a Thomas Jefferson High School student at age 17.
Ayers began playing the piano at the age of five and went on to play several instruments and sing in the church choir before plumping for the vibraphone.
When Puts reaches for percussion instruments, he chooses the sweeter ones — glockenspiel, crotales, chimes, vibraphone — and combines them luxuriously.
It was probably the drone on the vibraphone and the birdlike chirping on flutes that induced me into a trance.
“Gravity†is the album’s only track without a piano, slimming down this band of young aces to just bass, drums, guitar and vibraphone.
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