vibraharp

Some instruments were more successful than others, such as the vibraphone or vibraharp.

As of 2008, the term vibraharp had disappeared except for anachronistic uses.

The name confusion continues, even to the present, but over time vibraphone became significantly more popular than vibraharp.

The vibraharp is not amplified but it is electrified to create the sound.

When leading his band, Luigi Inc, he performed on vibraharp rather than drums.

However, when Deagan began marketing Schluter's instrument in 1928, they called it the vibraharp.

She specialized in the vibraharp, and graduated with a degree in percussion in 1952.

When Hampton's mallets struck the metallic bars of the vibraharp, a spray of notes burst forth.

The vibraharp is the largest of a familiy of instruments including the xylophone, marimba and vibraphone.

Saxophones, piano, bass and vibraharp do musically what we do visually and emotionally, now that close to 100 years have passed.

The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.

All three instruments are played with mallets, and the vibraharp is heard more in American jazz and Latin music than in classical European compositions.

The vibraharp's pre-eminent exponent is Milt Jackson of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

The vibraphone was (and is still) sometimes referred to as the "vibraharp," though it has no strings and its sound is produced by striking metal bars.

Also in 1945 he placed number 2 in Esquire's All American Band, New Stars category for Vibraharp.

He's also fond of tinkling, static, major-key patterns reminiscent of Gary Burton, who's scheduled to play vibraharp at Carnegie Hall.

Vibes refers to the vibraharp, or as the British say, the vibraphone, an electrified metal percussion instrument that descended from the wooden xylophone and the marimba.

By 1974, the Directory of the D.C. Federation of Musicians listed 39 vibraphone players and 3 vibraharp players.

Vibe Summit Honoree; Los Angeles Jazz Society Top Award for Vibraharp (2002)

The six-woman, one-man band also includes Ms. Seeling and Ms. Fineberg of Deuce, vibraharp and bass players and several percussionists.

The original quartet was John Lewis on piano, Milt Jackson on vibraharp, Ray Brown on bass and Kenny Clarke on drums.

Gary Burton on vibraharp brought out the music's thoughtful lucidity; Joe Lovano, on tenor saxophone, found its sultriness and languor, with phrases like wisps of pillow talk.

LEAD: Marimba Quartet Marimba Quartet What are the differences between the marimba, the xylophone and the vibraharp?

Discovering the Vibraharp "The vibrato I used as a singer is what I found I could discover on this instrument - the vibraharp," he said.

James Preiss, a member of the eight-year-old Marimba Quartet, explains: "The main difference is that the vibraharp is made of metal and the xylophone and the marimba are made of wood.