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Hamer Guitars (/ ˈ h eɪ m ər / HAY-mər) was an American electric guitar manufacturer founded in 1973, in Wilmette, Illinois, by vintage guitar shop owners Paul Hamer and Jol Dantzig. The company's early instruments featured guitar designs based on the Gibson Explorer (The Standard) and Gibson Flying V (Vector), before adding more ...
Ray Brown was born on October 13, 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and took piano lessons as a child. [1] After noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but his father was unable to afford one. [1] [2] With a vacancy in the high school jazz orchestra, he took up the upright bass instead. [1]
He has released two full-length solo albums as well as an EP. He uses a custom 6-string Ibanez Artcore bass. Rob Buck (1958 - 2000) was an American musician and founding member for the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. He played a Starfield America signature electric guitar, an AE40 acoustic guitar, both black and green sunburst and an AE20 ...
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (/ ˈ k l aɪ b ɜːr n /; July 12, 1934 – February 27, 2013) [1] was an American pianist. At the age of 23, Cliburn achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold War.
Charlie Sexton of Arc Angels; Tommy Shaw of Styx; Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio; Brix Smith Start of The Fall; Elliott Smith; Fred "Sonic" Smith of MC5 and Sonic's Rendezvous Band; Rick Springfield; Bernard Sumner of New Order and Joy Division; Toots Thielemans; Pete Townshend of The Who; Chris Urbanowicz of Editors; Robert van der Kroft; Steven ...
This is an alphabetized list of musicians who have made significant use of Danelectro, Silvertone or Coral guitars, basses, sitars and effects in live performances or studio recordings.
Memorial tablet to Larry Adler, Golders Green Crematorium. Lawrence Cecil Adler (February 10, 1914 [1] – August 6, 2001) was an American harmonica player and film composer. . Known for playing major works, he played compositions by George Gershwin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benja
This is a list of notable performers who appeared as piano duos in classical music. Most of these pianists performed works for piano four-hands (two pianists at one piano; also known as piano duet) as well as works for two pianos, often with orchestras or chamber ensembles. Some of these teams focussed exclusively or predominantly on this ...