The Vibrophone, Marimba, and Zylophone are all members of a percussion instrument family known as the Struck Idiophone family.

They're all a little bit different. Mirimba's have big resonant tubes.

xylophones don't, and vibraphones actually have butterfly valves that spin and add a tremolo effect to the sound.

I love a good mallet instrument, but that's just me.

Let's ask the horns what they think. The And the Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcasts, a Podcasts, I'm your host Kirk Hamilton, and as always I'm so glad that you've joined me to talk about music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and as always I'm so glad that you

joined me to talk about music played on xylophones, music played on morimba's, and

sometimes music played on vibraphones. We're going to be talking about a very

vibraphonic track on this episode and I'm really excited to get into it.

So find a comfortable place to sit, adjust your headphones, turn up the volume, and enjoy the show. Among what I've come to think of as the Holy Trinity of Mallet Instruments,

that being the Zylophone, Mirimba, and Vibrophone,

I only own one.

I own a Zylophone, which is probably the easiest of the three to own and I love the

xylophone I love that sound but it really would be cool to own either a maremba or a vibraphone I've always been really partial to that sound on my first solo album which I made back in 2009. I had a tune called The Bird Women of Golden Gate Park which featured quite a bit of Marimba playing. I recorded it on the school's

Marimba where I was teaching jazz band. It was actually a student named Galen Rogers, who's a very good

Marimba player and attended the high school where I taught jazz.

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It's a wonderful instrument, very fun texture to add to a recording, mostly for me at least because it combines

harmony and percussion so well, you know, it's a, it's just like a thing that you hit.

You know, the sound comes directly from the object as you hit it, which is what an idiophone is.

And as a result, you get a very percussive sound out of it, while still conveying harmonic information.

It can also just be a lush and lovely sound.

I promise when I finish my next album the

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