The repertoire for percussion quartets is fairly large, DeHart said, but the first work was only written in the 1940s, “So it’s less than a hundred years old. We don’t have the great ...

It is one of the oldest of musical instruments. There are records that the marimba existed in a much cruder form, as long ago as 2,000 B.C. Despite its distinctive sound, ...

Judy Hu MUS ’26 noted that even for the marimba, the percussion’s most popular instrument, there are only about a dozen works considered “standard,” or commonly played, repertoire. Chiang shared that ...

Instead of just including a library of pre-recorded samples captured from percussion instruments like marimbas and xylophones, Korg Berlin’s Phase8 features eight “replaceable and tunable ...

These instruments last long and make kids feel valued and the most important thing when playing an instrument is playing a quality instrument,” Kilby said. Kilby has made a classroom request through ...

new video loaded: Peru celebrates native percussion instrument, the cajon A lively celebration as Peruvians hold festival in honor of the cajon drum, and attempt to break the Guinness record for ...