Vibraphone Vibraphone The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. It consists of tuned metal bars, and is usually played by holding two or four soft mallets and striking the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a "vibraphonist" or "vibraharpist". The vibraphone resembles the xylophone, marimba, and glockenspiel, one of the main differences between it and these instruments being that each bar is paired with a resonator tube that has a motor-driven butterfly valve at its upper end. The valves are mounted
Metal Hammer sister magazines "Classic Rock" and "Prog", were bought from TeamRock by their previous owners, Future Publishing, for £800,000. On 27 March 2018, the family of Future's UK consumer music magazines including "Metal Hammer" re-branded and became covered under the umbrella title of Louder (also known as Louder Sound), with loudersound.com serving as the main online portal for the publications. London-based Wilfried F. Rimensberger instigated the concept of "MetalHammer" magazine in 1983. At the time, he suggested to the infant "Kerrang!" magazine in London that they should publish a German version, but the editors of the time were not interested. Rimensberger