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UK
/vˈaɪbɹɐfˌəʊn/
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NOUN
- a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound
How To Use vibraphone In A Sentence
- The blipping laptop beat, layered and echoed phase-guitar strums, ringing vibraphone and wheezing organ that open the song mark this is as mood music, like a soundtrack for a film.
- He also learnt to play the vibraphone, saxophone and percussion instruments.
- Don smiles, enjoying the moment as Tom arranges music on four separate stands ready for the chase around the mallets, timpani, marimbas, vibraphones and celesta that he knows will test his agility, his practised facility.
- The vast orchestra includes almost everything that tinkles, jingles or bangs, even bells, a vibraphone and a windmachine, as well as women's voices without words.
- A marimba also is essentially a set of wooden bars, while the glockenspiel and vibraphone involve metal bars.
- Jazz giant Gerry Mulligan and vibraphone supremo Gary Burton have both recorded albums with the maestro.
- For the other soloists, flute, clarinet, cello, Xylorimba, marimba and vibraphone, we have all of these in the Orchestre de Paris, played by instrumentalists chosen from the best soloists in France.
- Tape loops, samples, piano and the odd vibraphone take these songs away from the usual acoustic fare in favour of quirkier, yet still emotional, folk pop.
- ‘Maybe we'll have some congas and bongos, marimba and vibraphones, a bass drum, cow bells - perhaps a Chinese gong,’ she said, thoughtfully.
- In almost every song there is an acoustic element of either guitar, piano, horns, or vibraphones present in the mix.