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The xylophone (from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon) 'wood' and φωνή (phōnḗ) 'sound, voice'; [1] [2] lit. ' sound of wood ') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
The range of the marimba has been gradually expanding, with companies like Marimba One adding notes up to F above the normal high C (C 7) on their 5.5 octave instrument and marimba tuners adding notes lower than the low C on the 5 octave C 2. Adding lower notes is somewhat impractical; as the bars become bigger and the resonators become longer ...
Leigh Howard Stevens (born March 9, 1953, in Orange, New Jersey [1]) is a marimba artist best known for developing, codifying, and promoting the Stevens technique or Musser-Stevens grip, a method of independent four-mallet marimba performance based on the Musser grip.
Stevens grip is a technique for playing keyboard percussion instruments with four mallets developed by Leigh Howard Stevens.While marimba performance with two, four, and even six mallets had been done for more than a century, Stevens developed this grip based on the Musser grip, looking to expanded musical possibilities.
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Xylorimba, range C3-C8. The xylorimba (sometimes referred to as xylo-marimba or marimba-xylophone) is a pitched percussion instrument similar to an extended-range xylophone with a range identical to some 5-octave celestas or 5-octave marimbas, though typically an octave higher than the latter.
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At the conclusion of its seventh and penultimate rate-setting policy meeting of 2024 on November 7, 2024, the Federal Reserve announced it was lowering the federal funds target interest rate by 25 ...