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Melodic Percussion: Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Marimba, Carillon, Tubular Bell, Steelpan, Balafon, Hang, Glass Harp, Jal Tarang

Melodic Percussion: Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Marimba, Carillon, Tubular Bell, Steelpan, Balafon, Hang, Glass Harp, Jal Tarang


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Marimba, Carillon, Tubular bell, Steelpan, Balafon, Hang, Glass harp, Jal tarang, Kulintang a kayo. Excerpt: The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. The vibraphone is similar in appearance to the xylophone, marimba and glockenspiel but uses aluminum bars; not wooden bars like the first two instruments. Each bar is paired with a resonator tube having a motor-driven butterfly valve at its upper end, mounted on a common shaft, which produces a tremolo or vibrato effect while spinning. The vibraphone also has a sustain pedal similar to that used on a piano; when the pedal is up, the bars are all damped and the sound of each bar is shortened; with the pedal down, they will sound for several seconds. The most common uses of the vibraphone are within jazz music, where it often plays a featured role, and in the wind ensemble, as a standard component of the percussion section. The first musical instrument called "vibraphone" was marketed by the Leedy Manufacturing Company in the United States in 1921. However, this instrument differed in significant details from the instrument now called the vibraphone. The Leedy vibraphone achieved a degree of popularity after it was used in the novelty recordings of "Aloha 'Oe" and "Gypsy Love Song" by vaudeville performer Louis Frank Chiha ("Signor Frisco"). Former headquarters of J. C. Deagan, Inc. in Chicago, where Henry Schluter invented the vibraphone. Now (2008) home to Century Mallet Instrument Service.This popularity led J. C. Deagan, Inc. in 1927 to ask its Chief Tuner, Henry Schluter, to develop a similar instrument. However, Schluter didn't just copy the Leedy design, he introduced several significant improvements: making the bars f...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781234590123
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1234590123
  • Publisher Date: 08 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Marimba, Carillon, Tubular Bell, Steelpan, Balafon, Hang, Glass Harp, Jal Tarang
  • Width: 189 mm


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