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As with the xylophone, early vibraphonists such as Lionel Hampton and Milt Jackson used two mallets to play the instrument.
Modern vibraphonists such as Gary Burton, Mike Mainieri,Victor Feldman, Jerry Tachoir, Joe Locke and Dave Samuels, among others, use four mallets and the instrument has joined the modern jazz rhythm section as an accompaniment instrument.
Footage from the early 1940s of an orchestra of xylophonists and a vibraphonist.