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History of the VibraphoneBOOKS[TOP]Blades, James. "Vibraphone." In The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. London: Macmillan, 1984. Vol. 3, pp. 720-721. Blades, James. Percussion Instruments and Their History. Westport, CT: Bold Strummer, 1992. Revised edition. Brindle, Reginald Smith. Contemporary Percussion. London: Oxford University Press, 1970, Revised edition 1991. Feather, Leonard. "The Vibraphone." In: The Book of Jazz: From Then Till Now. [New York:] Dell, 1976. pp. 152-156. Peinkofer, Karl, and Fritz Tannigel. Handbook of Percussion Instruments: Their Characteristics and Playing Techniques. English translation by Kurt and Else Stone. Mainz: B. Schott's Sohne, 1969. Peters, Gordon B. The Drummer: Man. A Treatise on Percussion. Wilmette, IL: Kemper-Peters Publications, 1975. Revised edition. Trommer, Hal. "The vibraphone, vibraharp, and vibes." In: Encyclopedia of Percussion, John H. Beck, ed. New York: Garland, 1995. pp. 337-344. DISSERTATIONS[TOP]Gunderson, Terence Stark. "A pedagogical approach to solo jazz vibraphone developed through an analysis of common performance practice." D.A. dissertation. Greeley: University of Northern Colorado, 1992. Abstract: Dissertation Abstracts International vol. 54/02-A, page 453. Howland, Harold. "The vibraphone: A summary of historical observations with a catalog of selected solo and small-ensemble literature." D.M.A. dissertation. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1976. ARTICLES[TOP]Culhane, John. "Henry Schulter: Vibraharp originator. Bell expert rings up 60 years." Percussionist 4/2 (December 1965): 4 [Reprinted from the Chicago Daily News of March 27, 1965.] Howland, Harold. "The vibraphone: A summary of historical observations with a catalog of selected solo and small-ensemble literature." Percussionist [Part 1] 14/3 (Summer 1977): 77-93; [Part 2] 51/1 (Fall 1977): 20-40. [Note: See also correspondence from Michael H. W. Holloway in Percussionist 15/2 (Winter 1978): 104-5, and Howland's reply in 16/1 (Fall 1978): 44-45.] Meyer, Jacqueline. "Early history and development of the vibes." Percussionist 13/2 (Winter 1976): 38-57 Rossing, Thomas D. "Acoustics of bar percussion instruments." Percussionist (Percussive Notes Research Edition) 19/3 (Fall 1982): 6-17 "Vibraharp or vibraphone." The Instrumentalist 16/6 (February 1962): 26 VIBRAPHONE INFORMATIONAL WEB SITES[TOP]
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