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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.
SK Kakraba is a Ghanaian musician and performer of the country's traditional music.He makes and performs gyils, a xylophone containing 14 suspended wooden slats stretched over calabash gourds containing resonators. [1]
Jacob "Jakie" Hoffman (Yiddish: יעקב האָפמאַן, c. 1897–1974) was a Russian-born American Klezmer and orchestral musician, recording artist, and Xylophone player. He played and recorded with Harry Kandel , Philadelphia klezmer bandleaders of the interwar era, and was the father of Klezmer percussionist Elaine Hoffman Watts and ...
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However, in the orchestra, the term xylophone refers specifically to a chromatic instrument of somewhat higher pitch range and drier timbre than the marimba, and these two instruments should not be confused. A person who plays the xylophone is known as a xylophonist or simply a xylophone player. [3]
SK Kakraba is a master of the gyil xylophone, a Ghanaian instrument composed of calabash gourd resonators with 14 wooden slats strung across them. The buzzy rattle which sounds with each note, and with a decay pattern longer than the note, emits from the spiders' egg sacs' silk walls pulled across the gourds' holes, known in Kakraba's Lobi language as pappieye.
George Hamilton Green with xylophone, c. 1918. George Hamilton Green Jr. (May 23, 1893 – September 11, 1970) was a xylophonist , composer, and cartoonist born in Omaha, Nebraska . He was born into a musical family, both his grandfather and his father being composers, arrangers, and conductors for bands in Omaha.
She is a leading commissioner of new works for solo percussion. [ citation needed ] [ 6 ] Glennie also plays the Great Highland Bagpipes and has her own registered tartan known as "The Rhythms of Evelyn Glennie".