The Chernobyl and Joker composer’s new project leans on self-built instruments - and the brutal vocal textures of Rully ...

The marimba is a percussion instrument known for its warm, resonant sound made from mallets striking wooden bars. It pairs ...

James Moyer, a 1976 graduate of Shamokin Area High School, is in the final stages of releasing a new percussion method book, ...

“Flat instrument with wooden bars and mallet” in Cookie Jam answered. This time Buzzwords test our knowledge of musical instruments (and it’s not the last question about that, be prepared to face ...

These musical instruments may have originally been made from tree bark, stones, and gruesomely, stringed goat’s intestines. ... The strings are beaten with small wooden hammers or mallets.

A profile of Sandbox Percussion, winner of a 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant Award. ... Pillar V, the composer Andy Akiho has written for some traditional mallet percussion instruments. ...

An Upstate man carves tombstones the old fashioned way for individuals and most recently an entire slave cemetery in Rock ...

Each player uses a mix of mallets, drumsticks and their own fingers to expand the drum’s palette, with some extras — like a rat-a-tat against the mallet tray, or clacking together drum sticks ...

The Kinetic Xylophone is an interactive instrument, which plays music with motorized mallets by gestures from spectators. This instrument consists of fourteen metallic tubes, and reacts through ...

The World’s Largest Musical Instrument Is a 3.5-Acre Stone Organ Hidden Inside This Virginia Cave. The Great Stalacpipe Organ transforms stalactites into a vast, natural musical instrument.

Next time you see someone at the back of the orchestra with their many percussion instruments, take a moment to thank these masters of rhythm and timbre as part of the music you love.

The first known musical instruments date back at least 40,000 years. Over the course of millennia, creative people have made music with just about everything they could get their hands on, ...