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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Mallet bag showing variety of mallets. A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound. The term beater is slightly more general. A mallet is normally held in the hand while a beater may be a foot or mechanically operated, for example in a bass drum pedal. The term drum stick is ...
Mallet Quartet is a composition by Steve Reich scored for two marimbas and two vibraphones, or for four marimbas. It was co-commissioned by the Amadinda Quartet in Budapest , on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, by Nexus in Toronto, So Percussion in New York, and Synergy Percussion in Australia.
Five mallets in use on a vibraphone. In percussion, grip refers to the manner in which the player holds the sticks or mallets, whether drum sticks or other mallets.. For some instruments, such as triangles and large gongs, only one mallet or beater is normally used, held either in one hand or in both hands for larger beaters.
In 1984 he became professor of mallet percussion at the conservatory and won the European Audio-visual Grand Prix for his 1981 CD Saxophone et Percussion. [4] As a player, he is considered one of the most prominent mallet percussionists [5] and expanded vibraphone and marimba performance by introducing six-stick playing and the vibra-midi. [6]