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A Chemnitzer concertina is a musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed category, sometimes called squeezeboxes.The Chemnitzer concertina is most closely related to the bandoneón (German spelling: Bandonion), and more distantly, to the other types of concertinas and accordions.
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A recorder player is a musician who plays the recorder, a woodwind musical instrument.The recorder is used as a teaching instrument and has a large amateur following. Because of its ubiquity in these regards, the number of people who can play it in some capacity is eno
Playing a harpejji. The harpejji (/ h ɑːr ˈ p ɛ dʒ iː / har-PEJ-ee) [1] is an electric stringed musical instrument developed in 2007 by American audio engineer Tim Meeks. [2] [3] It has been described by its manufacturer as a cross between a piano and a guitar, [1] [4], and by Jacob Collier as a cross between an accordion and a pedal steel guitar. [5]
The right hand plays the melody strings by depressing spring steel strips that hold small lead hammers over the strings. A brief stab on a metal strip bounces the hammer off a string pair to produce a single note. Holding the strip down makes the hammer bounce on the double strings, which produces a mandolin-like tremolo. The bounce rate is ...
In Northern Europe, free-bass accordionist Mogens Ellegaard, along with Hugo Noth and Joseph Macerollo, [13] [14] helped popularize the instrument and inspire compositions for it. [ notes 2 ] In an interview he describes how the free-bass accordion was still practically non-existent in his childhood (born 1935), but how composers in his native ...
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Thus, even three-valved instruments with good alternative resonances can produce very low sounds in the hands of skilled players; instruments with four valves can play even lower. The lowest note in the widely known repertoire is a 16 Hz double-pedal C 0 in the William Kraft piece Encounters II , which is often played using a timed flutter ...