Archive for month: September, 2013
The percussion instruments of Middle East and the Balkans, all handcrafted and manufactured with the long time experience, knowledge and aesthetic skills combined.
Visit manufacturer’s website: http://www.eminpercussion.net
The shells are 30″ deep and are constructed using three plies of Siam Oak with a layer of fiberglass in the upper portion of the shell for additional strength. The drums are equipped with LP’s exclusive Comfort Curve Rims for easy playing and natural rawhide heads for incredibly true tone.
Visit manufacturer’s website: http://www.lpmusic.com
LP Timbales offer classic sound and excellent value. They can be used alone or added to a drum kit.
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Giovanni Hidalgo has played a major role in shaping the way the world thinks about hand drumming, and has played LP exclusively for his entire career. Giovanni replicates sounds with his hands that drummers normally make with sticks. Ambidextrous, with faultless technical skills and superb musicality, he has created a style all his own. Giovanni’s LP product line includes the Palladium Congas, Compact Congas and Galaxy Congas, as well as bongos, timbales, djembes and bags.
Visit manufacturer’s website: http://www.lpmusic.com
John Lennon on many occasions played a 12-string Framus Hootenanny acoustic guitar around 1965.
Visit manufacturer’s website: http://www.framus-vintage.de
Perfected after two years of development—and a name change or two—the Telecaster debuted in February 1951 and began its steady ascent toward stage and studio indispensability. Ingeniously engineered and heard loud and clear, it was a marvel of simple design elegance and workhorse utilitarian function. It is perhaps fitting testimony to its essential original rightness that the Telecaster has hardly changed ever since.
Visit manufacturer’s website: http://www.fender.com
Following in the footsteps of our Birch, Maple, and Beech drum series, Oak shows great promise as a drum shell material. A solid fundamental delivers a powerful sound while its character allows for a unique shell size line up. Beautifully grained, this hardwood creates a drum with stunning looks.
Visit manufacturer’s website: http://usa.yamaha.com
The Rhodes piano is an electro-mechanical piano, invented by Harold Rhodes[1] during the 1950s. It was later manufactured in a number of models, first in collaboration with Fender who after 1965, was bought by CBS.
As a member of the electrophone sub-group of percussion instruments, it employs a piano-like keyboard with hammers that hit small metal tines, amplified by electromagnetic pickups. A 2001 New York Times article described the instrument as “a pianistic counterpart to the electric guitar” having a “shimmering, ethereal sound.”
Visit manufacturer’s website: http://www.fender.com