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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: vibration + -phone

vibraphone

 noun
     
Related topics: Music
vi‧bra‧phone [countable] also vibes [plural]
APM an electronic musical instrument that consists of metal bars that you hit with special sticks to produce a sound
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