David Friedman (percussionist)
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David Friedman is an American jazz percussionist. His primary instruments are vibraphone and marimba.
David Friedman (vibraphon) at Moers Festival (former International New Jazz Festival) 1978
Vibraphone
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The vibraphone 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.
A Musser vibraphone
A 1928 ad for the Deagan vibraharp.
Lionel Hampton playing the vibraphone in 1946.
An overhead view of a 3 octave vibraphone with different mallets of varying hardness.