Vibraphone, used by Lionel Hampton
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
name: label: user
content: Hampton, Lionel
label: maker
content: Musser
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This vibraphone, used by Lionel Hampton, was made by Musser in Elkhardt, Indiana, around 1980. It is a three-octave, M75 Century model, with gold finished bars, gold lacquered resonators, and covered wood end panels.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader Lionel Leo Hampton (1908 - 2002) began his music career playing drums and took up the vibraphone in the late 1920s. After stints with Louis Armstrong, Nat Shilkret and his Orchestra, and the Benny Goodman Orchestra, Hampton formed his own orchestra in the early 1940s and would lead various incarnations of his group well into the late 1980s. Hampton donated this vibraphone to the Smithsonian in 2001 shortly before his death.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Elkhart
topic: label: Subject
content: African American
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Percussion
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content: Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
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content: Jazz
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Lionel Hampton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0013.01
label: accession number
content: 2001.0013
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0013.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vibraphone
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 145 cm x 76 cm x 89 cm; 57 3/32 in x 29 29/32 in x 35 1/32 in