Many, but not all, of the "top marimba players" performed at the Marimba 2010 International Festival & Conference in late April in MN. For information...
There are a variety of options for marimba bar cord. Some prefer a softer cotton cord for less bar noise, some prefer a more durable nylon cord, and s...
Percussive Notes, August 2002 Percussive Notes, June 2003 Percussive Notes, October 1997 Also, from the PAS Members Forum Errata Section: A fu...
1st place Yi-Chia Chen, Arizona State University 2nd place WeiChen Lin, Boston University 3rd place Mike Truesdell, Lawrence University 4th p...
The four finalists were all excellent. I don't have the correct spelling of their names, so I will wait until I have that information to post it, but ...
Volume 1 is worth it, whatever the cost. Volume 2, I'm less impressed with the Paul Klee piece, so $44 is a bit high for Conversation. Nevertheless, ...
What new piece from Rosauro? Kevin Bobo was hired as a marimba professor at Indiana University and will play at PASIC this year. Appalachian Sta...
Great idea, Greg!
The Malletech Stevens mallets have acrylic cores, covered with latex. The Malletech Concerto series has a phenolic core, covered with latex. My series...
Abe's recommendation with her line of signature mallets is similar: MKA 08, 07, 07, 06. However, I would classify the Abe series, the Van Sice seri...
Yamaha's "Keiko Abe Signature Mallet Matching List" shows MKA-05, MKA-06, MKA-07, and MKA-09 for VJCS. WM
'Sorry for the delay, but I was traveling. No, there is not a picture online, although Emmanuel Sejourne plays exactly the same way. The basic idea i...
Miyoshi's Torse III is an excellent piece and a good introduction to the core of Japanese marimba repertoire. There are a few commercial recordings av...
I recommend the following from the Marimolin catalog:Thomas Oboe Lee - MarimolinLyle Mays - Somewhere in Maine (but the electronics may be too may be ...