Editing Vibraphone (section)

===Extended techniques===
==== Five to six mallets ====
To achieve a denser sound and richer [[Voicing (music)|chord voicings]], some vibraphonists have experimented with three mallets per hand, either in both hands for a total of six mallets or in just the left hand for a total of five.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Porter |first=Joe |date=2011 |title=A New Six-Mallet Marimba Technique and its Pedagogical Approach |url=https://www.pas.org/docs/default-source/thesisdissertations/a-new-six-mallet-marimba-technique-and-its-pedagogical-approach-by-joe-porter.pdf |publisher=[[University of Lethbridge]] |page=3 |via=[[Percussive Arts Society]] |oclc=1033167255}}</ref>

==== Bowing ====
[[File:P1680535 6. Hörfest Neue Musik (Detmold) - Epilog (21915945046).jpg|thumb|A vibraphonist using two [[double bass]] bows to play "Mourning Dove Sonnet" by Christopher Deane.]]
Like many other [[metallophone]]s, percussionists can use an orchestral [[Bow (music)|bow]] on the vibraphone to achieve sustained tones that will not decay, nor have a percussive attack. This is done by bowing the bars perpendicular to their outer edges.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Joshua D. |date=2008 |title=Extended Performance Techniques and Compositional Style in the Solo Concert Vibraphone Music of Christopher Deane |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9030/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf |publisher=[[University of North Texas]] |page=14 |oclc=1269351540}}</ref> Due to the different mode of vibration, this also changes the sound of the vibraphone by emphasizing the higher harmonics and giving it a more "glassy" tone.{{Sfn|Rossing|2000|p=186}} Because changing notes requires large and precise movements, fast passages are not often written for bowed vibraphone.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Holland |first=James |title=Practical Percussion: a Guide to the Instruments and their Sources |date=2005 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-1-4616-7063-6 |edition=Revised |location=Lanham, MD |pages=56 |oclc=681550519}}</ref>

==== Pitch bend ====
[[Glissando#Bent note|Bent notes]] can be achieved on the vibraphone by sliding a rubber or plastic mallet from the nodal point to the center of the bar. This technique is able to lower the pitch by about a [[semitone|half step]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dimpker |first=Christian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/830355087 |title=Extended Notation: The Depiction of the Unconventional |publisher=[[LIT Verlag]] |year=2013 |isbn=978-3-643-90302-0 |location=Berlin |pages=132|oclc=830355087 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Dierstein |first=Christian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1051235045 |title=The Techniques of Percussion Playing: Mallets, Implements, and Applications |publisher=Bärenreiter-Verlag |others=Michel Roth, Jens Ruland, Christiana Nobach, Ellen Fallowfield |year=2018 |isbn=978-3-7618-2406-1 |location=Kassel |pages=152|oclc=1051235045 }}</ref>