Winterhoff, H.

…It is also called a vibraphone. In 1916, H. Winterhoff of the Leedy Company in the United States noticed that steel bars have a longer reverberation than wooden bars, and invented an instrument in which tuned steel keys were arranged like a xylophone and the amplitude of the vibrations was changed. At the time, it was simply an instrument in which two rows of resonators were arranged under the bars and moved up and down alternately, but it was later improved by J.C. Deagan into the instrument we know today. …

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…バイブラフォンともいう。1916年アメリカ･リーディ社のウィンターホフH.Winterhoffは鋼質音板が木質音板より余韻が長いことに着眼し，調律された鋼鉄鍵盤を木琴のように並べ，その振動の振幅を変える楽器を考案した。当時は音板の下に2列に並べた共鳴管を交互に上下させるだけのものであったが，後にディーガンJ.C.Deaganにより今日のように改良された。…

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