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The Early Music Shop is an early music store specialising in the sale and distribution of reproduction Renaissance and medieval musical instruments, with two showrooms situated in Saltaire and Snape Maltings, United Kingdom. It was founded by Richard Wood in 1968 [1] and has become the largest supplier of early musical instruments worldwide. [2]
The handmade headjoint of the Sonaré flute is used to generate the "Powell sound," while the process used in production of the body avoids the high cost of a handmade Powell instrument. In 2005, Sonare President David Kilkenny and Brass Expert Jim Becker created a line of trumpets with partner Cliff Blackburn.
Elderly Instruments has become known due to its attention to folk music niche markets (Eddie Collins of Bluegrass Now remarked "The roots of what today has become perhaps the world's most well known music store for acoustic instruments can be traced directly to the folk music boom of the 1960s."), [7] its reputation as a repair shop, [11] its ...
Cannonball Musical Instruments first began as a saxophone manufacturer. Cannonball saxophones in current production are student Alcazar, intermediate Sceptyr, and professional Big Bell Stone Series, Vintage Series, and Key Artist Series models, [4] are made in a variety of finishes including The Brute (aged brass), Raven (iced black), Mad Meg (bare brass), and Hotspur (iced black and iced silver).
Most instruments only have 8 bells, so can only play within a diatonic scale, within the range of an octave. Some instruments have a fourth valve, which directs airflow to a modified horn, allowing for chromatic scales. The instrument is only able to be played at one volume, which tends to be rather loud.
Potter Instrument Company was founded by John Taft Potter (1911–1987) in Long Island in 1942. [2] The company initially produced a variety of electromechanical devices for enterprise recordkeeping, including a device that could accurately count up to 1,600,000 pieces of paper in around one second, before moving onto more advanced computer hardware that would become its forte.
The air is blown between the thumbs into the hand. The thumb knuckles are put on the lips. The hand flute, or handflute, is a musical instrument made out of the player's hands. It is also called a hand ocarina or hand whistle. To produce sound, the player creates a chamber of air with their hands, into which they blow air via an opening at the ...
Manualism is the art of playing music by squeezing air through the hands. Because the sound produced has a distinctly flatulent tone, such music is usually presented as a form of musical comedy or parody. The musical performer is called a manualist, who may perform a cappella or with instrumental accompaniment.