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 off the air in September 2013. Many episodes of the podcast have since been deleted from YouTube and other hosting websites, however a select few are still available to this day. In February 2018, the podcast rebooted under a new format and with a different cast, featuring Merlin Alderslade, Eleanor Goodman and Luke Morton. "Metal Hammer" UK changed hands several times, being bought first by Dennis Publishing and then by Future plc. then by TeamRock, and finally by Future plc again following the collapse of Team Rock Ltd in December 2016. There remain Greek and Italian "Metalhammer" publications, both published