vibraphone
A percussion instrument with a double row of tuned metal bars, each above a tubular…A percussion instrument with a double row of tuned metal bars, each above a tubular resonator containing a motor-driven rotating vane, giving a vibrato effect.
» Tom plays the vibraphone exceptionally well.
Tom spielt außerordentlich gut Vibraphon.
Meaning
1 sensesA percussion instrument with a double row of tuned metal bars, each above a tubular resonator containing a motor-driven rotating vane, giving a vibrato effect.
Vibraphon
вибрафо́нvibrafón
a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound
Examples
2 sentencesTom plays the vibraphone exceptionally well.
deTom spielt außerordentlich gut Vibraphon. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom hit the vibraphone with his mallet.
Translations
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Forms
plural: vibraphones| Singular | vibraphone |
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