Editing Vibraslap (section)

==History==
The vibraslap comes from the African [[Jawbone (instrument)|jawbone instrument]]. This is the lower jawbone of a donkey or a zebra which has loose teeth that rattle when the instrument is struck.<ref>Karl Peinkofer and Fritz Tannigel, Handbook of Percussion Instruments, (Mainz, Germany: Schott, 1976), 159.</ref> The instrument was carried by enslaved people to South America where it became known as the jawbone (quijada in Spanish).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Afro Peruvian Percussion |url=https://artdrum.com/CAJON_&_AFRO_PERUVIAN_PERCUSSION.HTM |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=artdrum.com}}</ref> It became used in Latin American music in the ensuing centuries. 

The modern vibraslap was invented by Martin Cohen in 1967.<ref name="Percussion Instrument, US Patent 3439572">{{Cite patent|number=US3439572A|title=Percussion instrument|gdate=1969-04-22|invent1=Cohen|inventor1-first=Martin B.|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US3439572/en}}</ref>{{better source|date=July 2023}} Cohen was told by percussionist [[Bobby Rosengarden]], "If you want to make some money, make a jawbone that doesn't break." About the inventing process, Cohen remembers, "I had never seen a jawbone before, but I had heard one on a [[Cal Tjader]] album. I found out that it was an animal skull that you would strike, and the sound would come from the teeth-rattling in the loose sockets. So I took that concept and invented the Vibraslap, which was my first patent."<ref name="Percussive Arts Society Interview">"[http://www.pas.org/experience/halloffame/CohenMartin.aspx PASIC 2012] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140824081324/http://www.pas.org/experience/halloffame/CohenMartin.aspx |date=August 24, 2014 }}", ''PAS.org''. URL last accessed December 11, 2009.</ref> The vibraslap was the first patent granted to the instrument manufacturing company [[Latin Percussion]].<ref name="Steve Weiss Music Products: Vibraslap Description">{{Cite web |title=LP Vibra-Slap II - Standard Wood (LP208) |url=https://www.steveweissmusic.com/product/lp-vibra-slap-standard-wood/hand-percussion |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=Steve Weiss Music |language=en-us}}</ref>

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