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The marimba is the most popular solo keyboard percussion instrument in classical music. Popular marimba solos range from beginner solos such as Yellow After the Rain and Sea Refractions by Mitchell Peters to more advanced works such as Variations on Lost Love by David Maslanka , Rhythmic Caprice by Leigh Howard Stevens and Khan Variations by ...
Dave Samuels at Aarhus Jazz Festival (Denmark 2009) David Alan Samuels (October 9, 1948 – April 22, 2019) [1] was an American vibraphone and marimba player who spent many years with the contemporary jazz group Spyro Gyra.
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.
Despite the name, keyboard instruments such as the celesta and keyboard glockenspiel are not considered keyboard percussion instruments, despite being idiophones, due to the different skillsets required to play them. This is because keyboard percussion instruments do not possess actual keyboards, but simply follow the arrangement of the ...
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.
Keiko Abe (安倍 圭子, Abe Keiko, born April 18, 1937) is a Japanese composer and marimba player. She has been a primary figure in the development of the marimba, in terms of expanding both technique and repertoire, and through her collaboration with the Yamaha Corporation, developed the modern five-octave concert marimba.
A comprehensive list of musical instruments, including percussion instruments like xylophones and membranophones.
Xylorimba, range C3-C8. The xylorimba (sometimes referred to as xylo-marimba or marimba-xylophone) is a pitched percussion instrument similar to an extended-range xylophone with a range identical to some 5-octave celestas or 5-octave marimbas, though typically an octave higher than the latter.