Marimba

Found Sound Nation’s Nyokabi Kariuki talks to the first round recipients of OneBeat’s Accelerator Grant Blessing ‘Bled’ Chimanga, a 2014 OneBeat Fellow, is a percussionist and music educator from Zimbabwe, who has toured extensively throughout Africa, Asia and Europe. …

Classical music has evolved quite a bit over the past few hundreds of years. From early Gregorian chants to music being performed primarily for churches, nobles, and royalty in 1600–1700, and still to a point where anyone can play around with music and sound on their devices at home, we’ve…

The history of North American instrument manufacturers is a deep well of interesting personalities and innovation. Of those, John Cahoun Deagan (of J.C. Deagan, Inc. of Chicago) is particularly notable with his line of early-20th century idiophone instruments. …