Radio 3's Music Matters visited Peter at his ... Working out how the hand moves around the instrument took a lot of development. For instance, the thumb only operates one key, because it’s ...

This instrument is played by hand, unlike parai thappu, which is played with sticks. Padayani is a ritual dance of Kerala and the thappu is used as an accompaniment. It creates percussive music ...

The instrument is meant to be placed on a table with the larger end toward the performer, and while the right hand plays the melody on the treble strings with a violin bow, accompanying chords are ...

Mbira is a musical instrument traditionally from Zimbabwe in Africa. It's sometimes called a thumb piano. Mbira is made from a wooden block, about the size of an adult hand. On top of the wood are ...

and organizations that teach or play music and need a supply of instruments on hand (say, a church that needs a piano or a local music school that needs a drum kit).

What is a percussion instrument? A percussion instrument is any musical instrument that’s played by being struck or scraped – that could be by a beater like a drum stick, by the player’s hand, or by ...

U Khin Zaw, a pioneering and lively writer on Myanmar/Burmese music described seeing, in the early 1950’s, a Za’ Pwe performance which combined a hsaing waing group on the right hand side of the stage ...