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 ...

A second-hand instrument shop, run by a charity which creates musical experiences for people with learning difficulties, will close. Electric Umbrella, based in Watford, helps its members to make ...

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 ...