Rascal Flatts - These Days (Chorus)

VIBRAFON [from lat. vibro - vibrate (gr) and Greek. ponn - sound; ital. vibrafono, French carillon a lames, german Vibraphon vibraphone] - percussion instrument with defin. pitch, kind of metallophone. Invented in the beg. 20 centuryConsists of metallic. plates decomp. lengths arranged in two rows like the fp key. The performer on V. hits the plates with chopsticks with felted, as well as cotton or rubber tips. The design feature of V. is cylindrical. metal resonators placed under the plates and selected according to their pitch. Near the upper end of each cylinder are blades driven by a miniature electric motor or spring mechanism.