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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.
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 )
Leigh Howard Stevens (born March 9, 1953, in Orange, New Jersey [1]) is a marimba artist best known for developing, codifying, and promoting the Stevens technique or Musser-Stevens grip, a method of independent four-mallet marimba performance based on the Musser grip.
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.
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.
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
Glockenspiel and Crotales. A keyboard percussion instrument, also known as a bar or mallet percussion instrument, is a pitched percussion instrument arranged in the same pattern as a piano keyboard and most often played using mallets. [1]