By 1940, this instrument became commonly known as the “vibes” and by the 1960s, this musical vibe came to be slang for an “instinctive feeling”. It played a big role in the emergence of the jazz sound.Ī: Good question. Anyway, well into the 20th century, “vibrations” remained just a physical or audio phenomenon – with none of the emotion we assign them today.Ī: It started in the 1920s, with the invention of the vibraphone.Ī: It was also known as the vibraharp – a percussion instrument that looks like a large xylophone, yet has metal tubes hanging below that vibrate when you hit the bars on top. ![]() Q: Oh sorry, it’s just that the fat lady was singing and I assumed…Ī: Uh huh. Then, the Italian word “vibrato” was introduced in the 1860s to describe a tone that oscillates slightly in pitch, famously used by opera singers while holding a note. Long before batteries were invented, the word “vibration” turned up in English – around the 1650s – from Latin “vibratio” or “vibrare” meaning “to shake, brandish or set in tremulous motion”.Ī: Hahaha. Q: So it obviously came from “vibration”, right?Ī: Well, sort of. Macquarie Dictionary defines it as colloquial, “ a dominant quality, mood, or atmosphere”. Of course, the noun “vibe” is not a new thing. I just hear lots of young people these days describing something using “it’s a vibe”.Ī: Ah yes, the youth of today – a constant delight.Ī: So yeah, the phrase “it’s a vibe” (also a 2017 rap song by 2 Chainz and his buddies Ty Dolla Sign, Trey Songz and Jhené Aiko) is typically used to describe something or someplace positive. It’s a celebration of language, masquerading as a passive-aggressive whinge about words and weirdness. ![]() ![]()
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