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The glass marimba is a type of idiophone also known as a vitrephone or crystallophone.
Marimba translates to "a xylophone-like instrument" from an African language, probably Bantu. The glass keys are made of either hard glass (plate glass) or soft glass (stained glass). The keys are resonated with either a single open top box or individual resonators for each key. Mallets used to play the marimba can be constructed using a compressed silicone ball (bouncy ball) attached to one end of a wooden or synthetic dowel. These mallets bring out the purest sound from glass marimba. Other types of mallets are used for different effects. The tuning system of a glass marimba can be whatever is desired. Glass marimbas are utilised by the Brazilian percussion ensemble, Uakti.
The glassmarimba is a type of idiophone also known as a vitrephone or crystallophone. Marimba translates to "a xylophone-like instrument" from an African...
performers have invented and utilized contemporary glass instruments. Some examples include: Glassmarimba, utilized by the Brazilian percussion ensemble...
uses keyboard-driven hammers to strike glass bars instead of metal bars. The glassmarimba is similar to the marimba (a stick percussion instrument with...
Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens was a marimba-based musical group active from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s. They were based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania...
Leigh Howard Stevens (born March 9, 1953, in Orange, New Jersey) is a marimba artist best known for developing, codifying, and promoting the Stevens technique...
Wooden Arms, the album contains a few unusual instruments, including a glassmarimba on one track, but in general features less of the experimental sound...
electropop elements into Glass Animals' sound. It and "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" rejects the band's acoustic percussion and marimbas in favor of 808 sounds...
completed in March 1973. He also composed a variation for six marimbas, called Six Marimbas, in 1986. The world première performance of Six Pianos was in...
hand (like the wood block, singing bowl, steel tongue drum, triangle or marimba) or indirectly, with scraping or shaking motions (like maracas or flexatone)...
marimba de arco. The modern version of the instrument is a three octave marimba de arco and the music is always instrumental. The heyday of marimba in...
The Looking Glass in three days in early 1983. She performs all parts on the album, with diverse instrumentation including percussion, marimba, gong, reed...
). Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80106-X. Rossing, Thomas D. (2000). "14.9 Glass Instruments of Harry Partch and Jean-Claude Chapuis". Science of Percussion...
coast to coast on WABC. She played the marimba, organ, and singing glasses (glass harp). Dubbed Princess of the Marimba, she conducted the 21-piece Swingphony...
is all different, and no saxophones. I used the banjo, accordion, bass-marimba, metal aunglongs, you know, African squeeze drum, a calliope, a harmonium...
acoustic piano (4), synthesizers (8) Mike Mainieri – vibraphone (2, 7), marimba (2, 4), Eric Gale – electric guitars (3) Tom Coppola – Synclavier (3–6)...
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