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Yoichi Hiraoka (平岡 養一, Yoichi Hiraoka, August 16, 1907 – July 13, 1981) was a xylophonist in Japan. [1] He permanently resided in the United States in 1963. Career
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.
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.
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This performance inspired xylophonist Clair Omar Musser (1901-1998) so much that he took up studying the marimba with Brown's former teacher and became a marimba virtuoso himself.He was a percussionist for a time with Julius Lenzberg's Riverside Theatre Orchestra, and his later [1] recordings were xylophone solos with Lenzberg's band on Edison ...
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Charles P. Lowe was an American xylophonist who made numerous recordings in the early days of the recording industry. In 1883 Lowe was featured in a series of concerts at West End, New Orleans directed by Gustav D'Aquin. [1] Lowe was a featured performer in New York theaters in the 1880s, including Huber's Prospect Garden (1884). [2]
Finkel was known as one of the world’s greatest xylophone virtuosos. [6] He was the musical director for Michael Feinstein.He also worked for Sid Caesar, Tito Puente, and Ginger Roberts. [7]