The list of musical instruments that she since learned to play included : trumpet, piano, organ, harp, vibraharp, cello, Swiss bells and alpenhorn.
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In the 1940s, he created a new sound by slowing the motor on his Deagan Vibraharp's oscillator to a third of the speed of Lionel Hampton's.
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The vibraphone was ( and is still ) sometimes referred to as the " vibraharp, " though it has no strings and its sound is produced by striking metal bars.
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The event that put Hampton together with the vibraphone, or vibraharp as it is sometimes known, was a 1930 recording session in Culver City in which Hite's band was backing up Louis Armstrong.
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Originally a singer in a Detroit gospel quartet, he created a new sound in the 1940s by slowing down the motor on his Deagan Vibraharp's oscillator to a third of the speed of Lionel Hampton's; a result, when he chose to let a sustained note ring, was a rich, warm, smoky sound, with a vibrato that approximated his own singing.
