Vibraphone

Particular chapters summarize dividing of idiofons. I wrote about a history of vibraphone, its very beginnings and I continued with the description of vibraphone as a musical instrument. The aim of my bachelor thesis is to find manufacturers of vibraphones all over the world, to list various ways of playing the instruments, types of drumstick and ways how to hold and use them. I tried to make a list of the most important and famous vibraphone performers from the very past until the present, both of the Czech Republic and abroad. The last chapter describes vibraphone compositions of various pieces of music. I got a lot of useful information from my melodic instrument lectorers, especially from vibraphone specialists, performers and students while working on my thesis. Hopefully vibraphone and other drum instruments which are not generally known and respected in the Czech Republic soon will be appreciated as in other countries