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Arthur Hunt Lyman (February 2, 1932 – February 24, 2002) was a Hawaiian jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His group popularized a style of faux-Polynesian music during the 1950s and 1960s which later became known as exotica.
This group of instruments includes all keyboard percussion and mallet percussion instruments and nearly all melodic percussion instruments.Those three groups are themselves overlapping, having many instruments in common.
Ruth Underwood (born Ruth Komanoff; May 23, 1946) is an American musician best known for playing xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, and other percussion instruments in Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. She collaborated with the Mothers of Invention from 1968 to 1977.
Xylophone: Ghana, Uganda, Zambia Pitched 111.212 Idiophone The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets Xylorimba: Pitched 111.212 Idiophone Yanggeum: Korea Pitched Chordophone A type of Hammer dulcimer Yangqin: China Pitched Chordophone Type of hammered dulcimer. Yuka: Congo ...
Burton was born in Anderson, Indiana, United States. [1] Beginning music at six years old, he mostly taught himself to play marimba and vibraphone. [3] He began studying piano at age sixteen while finishing high school at Princeton Community High School in Princeton, Indiana (1956–60).
The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a vibraphonist, vibraharpist, or vibist. The vibraphone resembles the steel marimba, which it superseded
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The name is a slight misnomer, in that almost every percussion instrument is played with some type of mallet or stick. With the exception of the marimba, almost every other keyboard instrument has been used widely in an orchestral setting. There are many extremely common and well-known excerpts for most of the mallet instruments.