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5 days ago · Recorder players. The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes. A recorder can be distinguished from other duct flutes by the presence of a thumb-hole for the upper hand and seven finger-holes: three for the upper hand and four ...
4 days ago · Latvian-born accordionist Ksenija Sidorova introduces her wonderful instrument and its colourful history. Close your eyes, and picture someone playing the accordion.If the first image that pops into your head is an old man in a beret playing beautiful folk music in the corner of a French café, you probably wouldn’t be alone.
May 20, 2024 · The Kennedy Center - Antonio Vivaldi (May 20, 2024) Antonio Vivaldi (born March 4, 1678, Venice, Republic of Venice [Italy]—died July 28, 1741, Vienna, Austria) was an Italian composer and violinist who left a decisive mark on the form of the concerto and the style of late Baroque instrumental music.
May 7, 2024 · Maurice Martenot (born October 14, 1898, Paris, France—died October 10, 1980, Clichy) was a French musician who was the inventor of the ondes martenot (also called ondes musicales [French: “musical waves”]), an electronic instrument that supplies colour and tone to orchestral compositions. Martenot studied cello and composition at the ...
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4 days ago · This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones and membranophones) [ edit ] Main article: List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number
5 days ago · ARTIST DIPLOMA 2024 : Instruments à cordes. Félicitations à nos étudiants en discipline “Instruments à cordes” pour l’obtention de leurs Artist Diploma ! – Sofia BIANCHI (Contrebasse) […]
May 1, 2024 · musical instrument, any device for producing a musical sound. The principal types of such instruments, classified by the method of producing sound, are percussion, stringed, keyboard, wind, and electronic. Musical instruments are almost universal components of human culture: archaeology has revealed pipes and whistles in the Paleolithic Period ...
