A profile of Sandbox Percussion, winner of a 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant Award. After meeting in graduate school in 2011, members Terry Sweeney, Jonny Allen, Victor Caccese, and Ian Rosenbaum ...

Any student may apply, regardless of what percussion instrument they feel most comfortable on (snare, mallets, drum set, etc.). Although not necessary, it will be highly beneficial if the student is ...

We had to get an early start to figure out how to ergonomically squeeze all of Sandbox Percussion's instruments behind the Tiny Desk. The band deploys a surprisingly wide arsenal. The ...

Instead of just including a library of pre-recorded samples captured from percussion instruments like marimbas and xylophones, Korg Berlin’s Phase8 features eight “replaceable and tunable ...

Sometimes, we play “conventional” percussion instruments – things like marimbas, vibraphones, tom-toms, bass drums. And sometimes, we play homemade instruments – metal pipes, ceramic rice ...

The Drexel Percussion Ensemble brings together the ancient with the modern in percussion instrument applications. Students will learn to play traditional hand percussion instruments such as the tabla ...

Now those instruments will be made halfway around the world, and nine employees at the Chippewa Falls plant at 1304 1st Ave. will be out of a job next year.

The list of nine percussion instruments commonly used in samba circles and samba schools also includes the surdo (a type of bass drum), rebolo (another type of drum), frying pan, ...