![]() The DVD Lionel Hampton: Jazz Legend King of the Vibes chronicles the 73-year career of Lionel Hampton, the original jazz vibraphonist. As of 2008, it remains primarily, although not exclusively, a jazz instrument. This use was quickly overwhelmed in the 1930s by its development as a jazz instrument. The initial purpose of the vibraphone was to add to the large arsenal of percussion sounds used by vaudeville orchestras for novelty effects. Often, vibraphone is shortened to "vibes", and the two terms are used interchangeably. As of 2008, the term vibraharp has disappeared except for anachronistic uses. Federation of Musicians listed 39 vibraphone players and 3 vibraharp players. The name confusion continues, even to the present, but over time vibraphone became significantly more popular than vibraharp. As its popularity grew, other manufacturers began producing instruments based on Schluter's design, marketed under a variety of names, including Leedy, who marketed their new instrument as the vibraphone and abandoned their old design. Since Deagan trademarked the name, others were obliged to use the earlier "vibraphone" for their instruments incorporating the newer design. The name derived from similar aluminum bars that were mounted vertically and operated from the "harp" stop on a theatre organ. However, when Deagan began marketing Schluter's instrument in 1928, they called it the vibraharp. Schluter's design was more popular than the Leedy design, and has become the template for all instruments called vibraphone today. However, Schluter didn't just copy the Leedy design, he introduced several significant improvements: making the bars from aluminum instead of steel for a more "mellow" basic tone adjustments to the dimensions and tuning of the bars to eliminate the dissonant harmonics in the Leedy design (further mellowing the tone) and the introduction of a damper bar controlled by a foot pedal, enabling it to be played with more expression. in 1927 to ask its Chief Tuner, Henry Schluter, to develop a similar instrument. ![]() Now (2008) home to Century Mallet Instrument Service. in Chicago, where Henry Schluter invented the vibraphone. ![]() 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.įormer headquarters of J. 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. 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 is similar in appearance to the xylophone, marimba and glockenspiel. The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. ![]() Musser, Yamaha, Adams Musical Instruments, Saito Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, Stefon Harris, Ed Saindon, Dave Samuels, Gary Burton, Bobby Hutcherson, Monte Croft, Joe Locke, Steve Nelson, Tommy Vig, Cal Tjader ![]()
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