Vibes and motor, all true, but in serious music vibes are assumed to have the motor off unless specified on.
Raymond Horton On 3 Sep 2011, at 19:14, John Howell wrote: > > > 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! _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
