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vibraphone
noun
vi·bra·phone
ˈvī-brə-ˌfōn 
: a percussion instrument resembling the xylophone but having metal bars and motor-driven resonators for sustaining the tone and producing a vibrato
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Still, Ayers did not get his first vibraphone until the age of 17.
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Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 6 Mar. 2025
Their music splayed Ayers’ pillowy vibraphone tones across languid jazz-funk grooves that formed the bedrock for neo-soul—and, through sampling, much of West Coast hip-hop—to come.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2025
He was inspired to take up the vibraphone after seeing Lionel Hampton’s Big Band at the age of five, and took piano lessons and sang in the church choir.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
The orchestra foregrounded glistening timbres of harp, celesta, and vibraphone.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 6 Mar. 2025
Their music splayed Ayers’ pillowy vibraphone tones across languid jazz-funk grooves that formed the bedrock for neo-soul—and, through sampling, much of West Coast hip-hop—to come.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2025
He was inspired to take up the vibraphone after seeing Lionel Hampton’s Big Band at the age of five, and took piano lessons and sang in the church choir.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
The orchestra foregrounded glistening timbres of harp, celesta, and vibraphone.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Vibraphone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vibraphone. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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vibraphone
noun
vi·bra·phone
ˈvī-brə-ˌfōn
: a musical instrument resembling the xylophone but having metal bars and devices for increasing the vibrations
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