vibraharp
(ˈvaɪbrəhɑːp)
[f. harp n.1, after vibraphone.]
A vibraphone; orig., a proprietary name for a particular U.S. make of vibraphone.
| 1930 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 15 Apr. 545/1 J. C. Deagan, Inc., Chicago, Ill. Filed Jan. 22, 1930. Vibra-harp... Claims use since Aug. 1, 1928. 1949 L. Feather Inside Be-Bop iii. 88 Milton Jackson, vibraharp; b. Detroit, 1923. 1959 [see electric guitar s.v. electric a. 2 b]. 1968 Jazz Monthly Jan. 25/2 The programme too is attractively old-fashioned..and the accompaniment, on most tracks by guitar, clarinet, vibraharp, organ and drums, discreet and musicianly. 1977 Melody Maker 26 Mar. 34/1 The history of the vibraphone (or vibraharp, as it's sometimes called) in jazz has been strictly delineated by its most famous exponents. |
Hence ˈvibraharpist, a player on the vibraharp.
| 1943 Metronome Oct. 32/1 Darned if I can remember hearing ten vibraharpists in my life! 1966 Melody Maker 29 Jan. 8/6 Ayers is a vibraharpist. 1978 Country Life 5 Oct. 1003/3 Milt Jackson..the great vibraharpist. |