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vibraphone
noun vi·bra·phone \ˈvī-brə-ˌfōn\
: an electronic musical instrument which has metal bars that you hit with small wooden hammers to play notes and which has a motor that makes the notes vibrate
Full Definition of VIBRAPHONE
: a percussion instrument resembling the xylophone but having metal bars and motor-driven resonators for sustaining the tone and producing a vibrato
— vi·bra·phon·ist \-ˌfō-nist\ noun
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Origin of VIBRAPHONE
Latin vibrare + International Scientific Vocabulary -phone
First Known Use: 1926
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