The vibraphone is a kind of electronic steel marimba, initially produced in the US in 1916. The player uses rubber-topped beaters to strike two rows of metal bars. The sound is not amplified electronically: it is amplified by the action of the resonators (like the marimba) which enhance the sound. Each resonator has a fan, and all are joined ...
The vibraphone (or ‘vibes’ or ‘vibraharp’ as it is sometimes known), is a percussion instrument that uses an electro-mechanical system to create its distinctive sound. Construction The vibraphone is similar in appearance to a xylophone or marimba, in that it consists of a set of bars arranged over resonating vertical tubes. However, unlike the other, wooden instruments, ...
immense popularity of jazz groups and swing bands, instruments such as the trumpet, trombone, saxophone, clarinet, banjo, guitar, piano, double bass and vibraphone gained a new type of appeal and helped create virtuosos such as Benny Goodman (clarinet), Louis Armstrong (trumpet), Charlie Parker (saxophone) and Lionel Hampton (vibraphone). With recorded music now readily ...
From the 1980s, the new sound-worlds discovered by Stockhausen and others, using tape recorders and recording studio equipment, began to be further extended by the use of computers. The computer enables composers to examine and modify their work in unprecedented detail. Whereas the synthesizer can control pitch and timbre with ease, the computer can go a stage ...
bands that took over in the 1920s and 1930s, smaller breakaway groups performed occasionally, including Benny Goodman’s trio of clarinet, piano and drums, to which a vibraphone was later added. From groups like this, the bop style of the 1940s and 1950s arose, which was improvised to a large extent and demanded great agility. A ...
Keyboard percussion instruments include the western xylophone, marimba, vibraphone and glockenspiel, the log xylophones and marimbas of Africa and Central America, and the barred instruments played in the Indonesian gamelan. The orchestral xylophone, marimba and glockenspiel have thin wooden or metal rectangular bars laid out like a chromatic piano keyboard. The back row of bars – ...
first symphony, and in music by Japanese composers such as Takemitsu, Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929–97) and Keiko Abe (b. 1937). Styles & Forms | Contemporary | Classical Instruments | Vibraphone | Contemporary | Classical ...
drum kit. • The triangle, which although a single steel rod, has a clear ringing tone with the ability to cut through the largest of orchestras or bands. Vibraphone The vibraphone, or vibes, took the metal of the glockenspiel – a small xylophone with metal bars – and added metal resonators underneath the bars, kept in ...
the player with a variety of impressive built-in sounds and surfaces responsive to the established, traditional techniques of hand-drumming. Mallet Instruments Larger instruments like the xylophone, marimba or vibraphone are emulated by the malletKAT MIDI control surface. Introduction | Electric & Electronic Instruments Instruments | Drum Machine | Electric & Electronic ...
Paul Hardcastle’s ‘19’ to the drum loops of hip-hop and the often-overt lifting of whole, recognizable musical phrases into new compositions. Introduction | Electric & Electronic Instruments Instruments | Vibraphone | Electric & Electronic ...
This term describes instruments in which an electric motor drives moving parts, which in turn are used to either generate or modify sound. Instruments in this category include the vibraphone and the Hammond organ. Sound All sound begins as movement. A drum skin moves upon being struck; a taut string vibrates when plucked; a column of air moves across vocal ...
(Vibraphone, b. 1943) Gary Burton is one of the most impressive vibists in jazz, at times using four mallets in order to harmonize with himself. He began his career in country music with guitarist Hank Garland, played jazz with George Shearing and Stan Getz, and then helped to instigate the jazz-rock fusion movement through his group with ...
(Drums, b. 1960) Watts played timpani in the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra during his teens and vibraphone at Berklee School of Music, where he met the Marsalis brothers. He recorded with Wynton Marsalis from 1981 and then with Branford, following him into the house band of the televised Tonight Show. An explosive polyrhythmist who can also provide restrained ...
(Vibraphone, 1930–90) Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton’s long career included roles as sideman, bandleader, and cultural force that extended beyond the jazz world. Beginning as a drummer, he switched to vibes at the suggestion of Louis Armstrong, and then broke the colour barrier as a member of Benny Goodman’s legendary big band. Hampton’s own groups melded swing with ...
one did, he believed, the more one made. So Hampton was always doing more. During his early years he worked as a drummer. He began experimenting with the vibraphone around 1930, but few bandleaders wanted its unorthodox sound. In 1936 Benny Goodman heard Hampton, was impressed and immediately invited him to join Gene Krupa and Teddy Wilson ...
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