The name is a combination of the words stalactite and pipe organ but in actuality, it is a percussion instrument. Each key on the organ, when pressed, triggers a small electric hammer. Throughout ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates steelpan music, and specifically the steelpan instrument. The percussion instrument was created by Trinbagonians (people from the Caribbean island country of ...

Judy Hu MUS ’26 noted that even for the marimba, the percussion’s most popular instrument, there are only about a dozen works considered “standard,” or commonly played, repertoire. Chiang shared that ...

Guitarist Eric Haugen asked his Uncle Mark (Mark Goldstein) to explain the Marimba Lumina, a really fun and unique electronic vibraphone style instrument that he and synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla ...

This camp will accept rising 8th - 12th grade students. Any student may apply, regardless of what percussion instrument they feel most comfortable on (snare, mallets, drum set, etc.). Although not ...

Instead of just including a library of pre-recorded samples captured from percussion instruments like marimbas and xylophones, Korg Berlin’s Phase8 features eight “replaceable and tunable ...

The instrument's keys are made of porcelain tiles that have been tuned to the pentatonic scale, with each key's pitch determined by the distance between the two rubber supports on which they sit.

Arto is known most widely for his percussion work with jazz artists, such as Chet Baker and Oregon. His 2001 album Aile Muhabbeti was used as soundtrack in two films: Hemşo (2001) and Mon père ...