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This is a list of marimba manufacturers, including both past and current marimba makers. This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( October 2021 )
Ludwig acquired the Musser Mallet Company, a manufacturer of xylophones, marimbas and vibraphones, in 1965. [2] Ludwig was a strong presence in the marching drum market. During the 1970s, Ludwig's "Challenger" line of snare drums offered sophisticated tuning and strong build quality. Ludwig drums were used by many leading drum and bugle corps.
Clair Omar Musser (1901–1998) was a marimba virtuoso, a conductor and promoter of marimba orchestras, a composer, a teacher, a designer of keyboard percussion instruments, an inventor, and an engineer for Hughes Aircraft.
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.
The marimbas were first used for light music and dance, such as vaudeville theater and comedy shows. Clair Omar Musser was a chief proponent of marimba in the United States at the time. In 1940, the American composer Paul Creston wrote the first composition for solo marimba (Concertino for Marimba and Orchestra). [17]
Musser is a surname. Musser may also refer to: Musser Mallet Company, manufacturer of xylophones, marimbas, and vibraphones, now part of Ludwig Drums; Musser-Stevens grip, a method of playing keyboard percussion instruments with four mallets; Musser Scout Reservation; Musser Lumber Company
Like marimbas, professional vibraphones have bars of graduated width. Lower bars are made from wider stock, and higher notes from narrower stock, to help balance volume and tone across the range of the instrument. [27] The bars are anodized after fine-tuning (typically in a silver or gold color) and may have a glossy or matte finish. These are ...
Marimba (lamellophone), a plucked box instrument also known as the marímbula Marimba Lumina , a MIDI controller that lets a musician play music via a control surface based on the layout of a marimba Marimbaphone , a tuned percussion instrument similar to the marimba, which can also be played with a bow