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
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.
Glockenspiel
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The glockenspiel or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the vibr
Vibraphone
…pitch notation). Larger 3+1⁄2 or 4 octave models from the C below middle C are also becoming more common (C3 to F6 or C7). Unlike its cousin, the glockenspiel, the vibraphone is generally a non-transposing instrument, written at concert pitch. Vibraphone mallets usually consist of a rubber ball core wrapped…
A glockenspiel made by Malletech
A glockenspiel made around 1910 in Leipzig, Germany
A Mardi Gras musician playing a horizontal bell lyre
A vertical bell lyre in use by the National Marching Band of the RAF Air Cadets