marimbist

marimbist
A player of the marimba.

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  • marimbist — noun see marimba …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Pius Cheung — (Chinese name: ; b. 1982) is a marimbist and composer. BiographyBorn in Hong Kong, Pius Cheung started to learn piano at age five and marimba at age nine at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. At age 10, he made his solo debut as a… …   Wikipedia

  • Vida Chenoweth — (born c. 1929) was the first classical marimbist, also a noted ethnomusicologist and linguist. She is credited with bringing the marimba to public acceptance as a serious concert instrument.Born in Enid, Oklahoma, she moved to New Guinea as a… …   Wikipedia

  • marimba — noun Etymology: of Bantu origin; akin to Kimbundu marimba xylophone Date: 1704 a xylophone of southern Africa and Central America with resonators beneath each bar; also a modern form of this instrument • marimbist noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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  • Leigh Howard Stevens — (LHS, born March 9 1953) in Orange, New Jersey, and is a marimba artist best known for developing, codifying, and promoting the Stevens technique or Musser Stevens grip, a method of independent four mallet marimba performance based on the Musser… …   Wikipedia

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