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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 ...
Do you like music? If so, you are probably like a fish in water answering the new Buzzwords in Cookie Jam. All of them are ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recipients of the 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant Award, Sandbox Percussion has sought to expand the breadth of percussion as an art form. One of their favorite things to do is to work with modern ...
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 ...
(SOUNDBITE OF GREAT STALACPIPE ORGAN MUSIC) MOYER: It's really a percussion instrument. GOFFINSKI: Each key on the organ, when pressed, sends an electrical impulse to trigger a small hammer which ...
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 ...
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 ...