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Watch a woman playing the hammered dulcimer
Watch a woman playing the hammered dulcimer
North American hammered dulcimer.
Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)
Watch a woman playing the hammered dulcimer
The intricate process of constructing a grand piano
Playing the
rebab
, an instrument that elaborates the melody in Javanese gamelan music
Watch a man playing the sarod, a stringed instrument of Hindustani music
See a Chinese music ensemble performing “Melodies of Purple Bamboo”
Learn about the Brazilian berimbau's African roots and how the stringed instrument is played
Witness the complicated interplay between the damper, hammer, wippen, and other grand-piano components behind every keystroke
How Bob Marley brought reggae into the mainstream
Listen to the song “What I'll Do with My Baby-O” performed on an Appalachian dulcimer
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