At 10:43 AM -0700 9/3/11, Blake Richardson wrote: > >I didn't even know the instrument had a motor. >All I know about vibraphones is that they're >analogous to xylophones/marimbas with a >different sound/timbre.
Well, it's a metallophone--metal bars instead of wood or plastic--so that explains the different sound as well as the much longer decay time. But having a motor that runs a series of small fans in each resonance tube to produce a vibrato--and often a variable speed motor at that so the vibrato can be varied--is the defining aspect of a vibes sound! Just as the rotating Leslie speakers and their vibrato are a defining aspect of the classic Hammond Organ sound. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
