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Also known as vibraharp, vibes, Vibraphone, Vibes, the Vibes, V-phone
The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a vibraphonist, vibraharpist, or vibist.
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- Instrument.name
- Vibraphone
- Instrument.image
- Vibes joelocke koeln2007.jpg
- Instrument.image_capt
- A Musser vibraphone
- Instrument.background
- percussion
- Instrument.classification
- Keyboard percussion
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 111.222
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Sets of percussion plaques
- Instrument.inventors
- Herman E. Winterhoff
- Instrument.developed
- 1916
- Instrument.range
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- Instrument.musicians
- See list of vibraphonists
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- musical instrument
- Image
- Vibraphones.jpg
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Article · 中文
顫音琴（英語：Vibraphone，又可稱為Vibraharp，簡稱Vibes），是打擊樂器的一種。琴鍵以金屬製造，通常為黃銅或鋁合金所造。琴鍵下設有共鳴管，最特別之處乃在各支管頂上加裝了能轉動的扇葉，並且連接至琴身旁的馬達。當供電及開啟開關掣後，扇葉便能轉動，導致共鳴管不斷被開合。當敲打琴鍵時，聲波震動空氣傳入共鳴管，扇頁打開時便能擴音及增加迴音，但扇頁關閉時音波則被阻擋，能進入共鳴管的音波大幅減少，所產生的共鳴和迴音也較少。最終便產生出忽響忽暗的音色，「顫音琴」的名稱就是這樣而來。另外，颤音琴一般都會附有踏板，令琴鍵不會被止音墊止震，而令發音延長。
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