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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] He played with the New York Philharmonic and played with orchestras that accompanied Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross. [8]
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SK Kakraba is a Ghanaian musician and performer of the country's traditional music.He makes and performs gyils, a xylophone containing 14 suspended wooden slats stretched over calabash gourds containing resonators. [1]
George Hamilton Green with xylophone, c. 1918. 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 gyile is a type of West African xylophone, with seventeen keys constructed over gourds. [1] It holds a place in the musical traditions of the Dagara and Birifor people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso.
From 1931 on Brown played xylophone on the radio, in films and on the variety stage. His appearance was dapper but stout, but he was nimble and often danced around the xylophone while playing. He appeared in the Royal Variety Performance in 1931. He was associated with The Crazy Gang, and was often the subject of their jokes.
George Lawrence Stone was born in 1886. He was the son of drum teacher and manufacturer George Burt Stone.George Lawrence learned drums and xylophone from his father and also helped out in his shop, where the elder Stone tucked drumheads, turned drumsticks, made wooden foot pedals and sold violins.
Roikjer composed approximately 100 works, about one third after his retirement. His style was classically-inspired, in the French manner. [1] He wrote mostly for small ensembles, often employing less frequently used instruments such as tuba, xylophone and saxophone.