Vibraphone

Definition: Vibraphone

Vibraphone

Noun

1. An percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound.

Synonyms: Vibraphone

Synonyms: vibes (n), vibraharp (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Vibraphone

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp, is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It is similar to the xylophone; the vibraphone uses metal bars instead of the wooden bars on the xylophone. Below each bar is a resonating tube with small metal disc located at the top; the discs in each tube are connected via a rod which can be made to rotate with a motor. When the motor is on and a note is struck, the notes acquire a tremolo sound. The player can vary the speed of the tremolo. With the motor off, the vibraphone has a mellow, bell-like sound.

Some famous vibraphonists:

Roy Ayers
Karl Berger
Jeff Berman
Gary Burton
Terry Gibbs
Lionel Hampton
Stefon Harris
Bobby Hutcherson
Milt Jackson
Mike Manieri
Steve Nelson
Red Norvo
Dave Samuels
Cal Tjader
Gust Tsilis

See also: Xylophone, Marimba, Glockenspiel

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vibraphone."

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Crosswords: Vibraphone

English words defined with "vibraphone": Hampton ♦ Lionel Hampton. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Vibraphone" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (vibes, vibraphone), German (vibraphone, vibraphones).

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Commercial Usage: Vibraphone

Domain	Title
Books	Berklee Practice Method: Vibraphone (reference) European Gallery: A Collection of Classical Solos for Vibraphone and Marimba (reference) Mirror from Another: A Collection of Solo Pieces for Vibraphone (reference) Velocity Warm-Ups for Jazz Vibraphone (reference) Vibraphone Portfolio: 5 Solos for 4 Mallets (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Vibraphone".

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	"Aloha Oe" played on vibraphone with Brazilian style percussion accompaniment.		Vibraphone accompanying a nylon string guitar solo in a Latin jazz style.
	Chords arpeggiated downward on a large vibraphone.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Vibraphone

"Vibraphone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Vibraphone" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	83.33%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vibraphone

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
vibraphone	50
sale vibraphone	4
used vibraphone	2
musser vibraphone	2
vibraphone yamaha	2
kosth vibraphone	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vibraphone

Language		Translations for "vibraphone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vibrafon (vibes). (various references)

Arabic		‏الفيبرافون آلة موسيقية. (various references)

Bulgarian		вибрафон (vibes). (various references)

Chinese		�"�颤琴. (various references)

French		vibraphone (vibes). (various references)

German		Vibraphon. (various references)

Hungarian		vibrafon (vibes). (various references)

Italian		vibrafono (vibes). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"ニル樹脂 (beaver, beefsteak, beer garden, beer hall, before service, behaviour, behaviourism, behind, bibliography, bibliomania, bivouac, chatter mark, Lactobacillus bifidus, vibrato, vinegar, vinyl resin, vinylon, vivid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"ブラフォン . (various references)

Pig Latin		ibraphonevay

Portuguese		vibrafone. (various references)

Russian		виброфон (vibes). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vibrafon. (various references)

Spanish		vibráfono. (various references)

Swedish		vibrafon (vibes). (various references)

Turkish		vibrafon (vibes). (various references)

Ukranian		вібрафон (vibes). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Vibraphone

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vibraphone": vibraphones. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Vibraphone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-i-n-o-p-r-v"
	-2 letters: behavior.
	-3 letters: heparin, hipbone, phonier.
	-4 letters: barhop, bonier, borane, bovine, ephori, harpin, havior, hernia, heroin, naiver, orphan, orpine, panier, pavior, phobia, proven, rapine, ravine, renvoi, vahine, vainer.
	-5 letters: abhor, above, aiver, apron, arpen, avion, bairn, baron, beano, bevor, bohea, boner, borne, brain, brave, bravi, bravo, brine, envoi, ephor, haven, haver, heron, honer, hoper, hover, invar, irone, naevi, naive, noria, novae, obeah, opera, opine, orpin, ovine, paeon, pareo, parve, parvo, paver, pavin, phone, piano, prion, probe, prone, prove, raphe, raven, ravin, rebop, rehab, repin, rhino, ripen, riven, robin, roven, vapor, viper, vireo.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-i-n-o-p-r-v"
	+1 letter: vibraphones.
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