vibrafono

vibraphone, also called Vibraharp, or Vibes, percussion instrument that has tuned metal bars and is similar in shape to a xylophone. Felt or wool beaters are used to strike the bars, giving a soft, mellow tone quality.

So you can make it really custom unlike you can easily with a piano pedal. Now over here the vibraphone has a really special feature.

Range. The standard modern instrument has a range of 3 octaves, starting from the F below middle C (F3 to F6 in scientific pitch notation).

As a rule, hard mallets are used on the vibraphone; metal bars can cope with harder mallets than wood ones can (xylophone, marimba). Depending on the task to be performed the head can also be wrapped in yarn or cord.

The vibraphone, whose tone plates are made of metal, produces, once struck, notes that last a long time and disappear gradually. However, there is a lack of the density of wood, and the bars are uniform, which results in the sound that is produced sounding non-organic.

Each bar of the vibraphone has a resonating tube underneath the bar that amplifies the sound. Inside each resonating tube there is a fan disc that is attached to a motor and spins so that the resonating tube is alternately closed and opened. The opening and closing of the resonant tube creates the vibrato effect.

The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the struck idiophone subcategory that consists of metal bars and it is played through hitting the bars with mallets and dampening the sound with the help of the pedal. While the instrument seems more complex than individual drums, it is also quite easy to learn to play.

1. The term harpsichord refers to a whole family of instruments - including large ones (generally just called harpsichords) as well as smaller examples like virginals and spinets. 2. The piano and the harpsichord existed concurrently for most of the 18th century.

Three things vibrate when sound is created: the source object. the molecules in the air (or another medium e.g. water) the eardrum.

The instruments that produce sound by vibrating strings are called string instruments.

Origins/History/Evolution The vibraphone was invented in America in 1921 by Hermann Winterhoff of the Leedy Drum Co. and almost immediately was put to use by dance band and jazz musicians. Starting in the 1930s a few orchestral composers started to occasionally incorporate it in their works.

The harpsichord is a keyboard instrument in which the strings are plucked, rather than hit with a hammer (which is the mechanism for the piano, a more recent development). The distinctive sound of the harpsichord creates an almost immediately association with the baroque era.