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GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: Composition Company RS Berkeley Donates a Full Orchestra of Musical Instruments to Cuban Composition …
New York, NY—in a foremost publication last week, les silver, president and ceo of rs berkeley musical instruments, pledged that the company will donate all the brand-new, acoustic instruments needed to completely outfit a student orchestra at the amadeo roldA n Academy of Composition in Havana, Cuba’s premier academy of composition…

From voaspecialenglish.com | http LARRY JERNIGAN: “This is a leak light. So if you see light, then that means air is getting owing to. That means the lower notes won’t play and it’s a chance that it will diminish the child’s playing encounter, which we don’t want.” Larry Jernigan wants children to have a joyful encounter with composition. LARRY JERNIGAN: “I reckon that works.” Charles West feels the same way. CHARLES WEST: “In fact like my job. Sometimes it seems not, you know, to be work. But it is work.” LARRY JERNIGAN: “I like the fact that I work around composition all day, that my job involves composition, it involves the support of composition, and it involves the education of composition.” Charles West and Larry Jernigan have worked together for nearly 20 years. They fix musical instruments for the Washington, DC, public schools. Last year, they repaired more than 600 instruments. CHARLES WEST: “There are two of us here. We do brass, string, woodwind, percussion, piano and electric keyboard. And if you take it outside, you are talking six, seven different those to fix what I just stated.” The two men say they have yet to meet an instrument they could not fix. CHARLES WEST: “There are instances when we run across an instrument that is just beyond economical repair. So we just strip the parts from that and use those parts to give life to other instruments.” Both men are musicians and composition lovers. So learning to do repairs was simple. CHARLES WEST: “I have been a musician all of my life. I …

I remember considering a touring band of Russian musicians playing 50′s style rock and roll….. all on balalikas…. I LOVED it. It was an awesome twist on the usual.

What are the oddest instruments you have ever seen used?

I was thinking of trying to learn the keyboard or the drums, but am currently learning to play the guitar.

Should I focus on the guitar for now and wait to learn anything else?

I don’t have a piano but I do have a non-fullsize guitar. Are there any ways to learn these instruments online for free without the instruments?

For example is it him playing the piano on ‘Dreamer’?

Though many of us may hear composition where others hear noise, it cannot be denied that composition plays an integral role in our everyday life. Composition is the backdrop of many of our favorite films; most Saturday morning cartoons use classical composers like Bach and Beethoven to provide its storyline with highly effective dramatic elements. Just as mothers sing sweet melodies to their children to lull them to sleep, sporting events use loud, high-energy composition to excite and invigorate spectators.

But what I consider composition may not be your favorite choice of song. Just as musical tastes within cultures and across continents vary, so do the instruments used to make some of today’s most well loved musical arrangements.

In the West, some of the first instruments that force come to mind are the guitar, keyboard, drums…solidified in the minds of Westerners after the birth of jazz and rock and roll. But explore a bit further, and one would easily be surprised about the breadth and scope of instruments used to produce composition.

Here are a few exotic instruments from around the world that are growing in popularity. They are worth your consideration, due to each instrument’s innovative structure and uniqueness of sound. And who knows, one day one of these instruments force show up at a local festival or concert hall:

• The Balalaika is a lute-like stringed folk instrument of Russian origin. The Balalaika has a three-sided body and a long neck. The three types of the Balalaika are the prima, sekunda, and the basses and contrabasses. Each type is played differently: the prima is played only with the fingers, the sekunda can be played with the fingers or a plectrum (pick), and the floor-sitting basses and contrabasses varieties are played with a leather plectrum.

• The gopichand (also known as gopiyantra or khamak) is a well loved folk instrument used in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. The three types are soprano, tenor, and bass and the instrument is used frequently in Hindu chanting ceremonies. The sound of the gopichand is very unique; the “legs” of the instrument are squeezed together while the other hand strums the string. It produces an exotic bending sound with a pulsating rhythm.

• The Sitar is the most well loved instrument of Indian classical composition. It has a long hallow neck made of wood and a gourd resonating chamber. It can have up to four main strings, three or four drone strings, and thirteen sympathetic (resonating) strings. The sitar is so rooted in the polish of India that children and young adults wanting to learn the sitar often enter into long apprenticeships where the teacher plays a drone that provides a gorgeous accompaniment to the distinctive twang of the sitar. The sitar has been used in Hindu classical composition since the Middle Ages and became known to the West after Beatle George Harrison took sitar lessons from Pandit Ravi Shankar and incorporated the instrument into several songs in the 1950s.

• The Yue Qin (yueqin) is also referred to as a moon-guitar, moon-zither, or gekkin. The yueqin is a lute with a round, hallow wooden body and a small fretted neck. According to legend, this exotic instrument was invented during the Chinese Qin Dynasty, between 201 and 226 BCE. The yueqin is one of the most, if not the most, well loved stringed instrument in the Beijing opera orchestra. In fact, is often used as the chief melodic instrument, replacing the bowed string section. The body of this Chinese instrument is typically circular yet it can come in many different sizes and pitches.

• Dan Bau is maybe one of the most unique musical instruments in the world – it has only one string. But its one string status is not a limitation by any means. An experienced user can produce any note with a tonal range up to 3 octaves. The Dan Bau makes a harmonic sound, full of rich overtones and takes a fantastic deal of precision to master. The instrument is integral to Vietnamese folk composition but with the invention of magnetic pickup, the Dan Bau has exploded onto the contemporary Asian pop and rock scene.

To order any one of the exotic instruments mentioned above, please visit http://www.ScaleInstruments.com and do a search in the Folk and World Instruments section of the website for the instrument that you desire. You will be glad you found out about us!

You won’t believe your ears when you hear this. Jaron Lanier, pad scientist and virtual reality pioneer, demonstrating some 7000 year ancient wind instruments after participating in a very fascinating 2 hour roundtable discussion about “The Future of Technology.” Watch the entire discussion here: www.youtube.com Jaron Lanier’s wiki entry: en.wikipedia.org Jaron Lanier’s website (including composition downloads): www.jaronlanier.com

E3 2010: MTV outsources Rock Band instruments, embraces dancing
The composition channel still likes Rock Band. It’s making the instruments for Rock Band that is causing headaches.

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Though they invent aesthetically the composition (designing), do they themselves play the instruments or instrument players play the composition according to the artist’s composition? And suppose if the hired instrument player makes a better version of the artist’s original composition does the hired instrument player given the credit as well.