vibraphones

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Scope note
Metallophones consisting of tuned, graduated metal bars arranged in two rows suspended from a metal frame with tubular resonators suspended below them; motor-driven spinning discs fixed above the open tops of the resonators produce the unique vibrato characteristic of the instrument.
vibraphones
Accepted term: 01-Dec-2025