Vibraphone
Vibra-Harp

Percussion

Musical Theory and Technique

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    The vibraphone is a percussion instrument.

    The vibraphone is a musical instrument similar to the marimba but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators to produce a vibrato. Also called “vibra-harp”.

    General MIDI Level 1 Sound Set Program Channel Number: decimal 12 or hexadecimal 0x0B. (See General MIDI Level 1 Sound Set.)

    The word “vibraphone” comes from the English word “vibrate” and the Greek word “phone” meaning sound.