Recipients of the 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant Award, Sandbox Percussion has sought to expand the breadth of percussion as an art form. One of their favorite things to do is to work with modern ...

The marimba has an interesting history in which, oddly enough, Pennsylvania plays a major role. It is one of the oldest of musical instruments. There are records that the marimba existed in a much ...

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 ...

Darbuka, also known as doumbek (or tumbak), or derbeki, is a Middle Eastern percussion instrument. The goblet-shaped single headed hand-drum is an ancient drum. It was originally played in Egypt, ...

The UAB Percussion Studio is geared towards the success of its students in today’s highly competitive job market. Students must first audition to become a music major at UAB, and from there are placed ...

Through many of us may kitchen-top-finger-tap or office-desk-thumb-drum out of impatience or boredom, folks like Jeremy Ellis and Wilhelm Grahsl have turned it into an impressive art form, with a ...

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 ...

Today Native Instruments releases a new software instrument for creating cinematic percussion in Kontakt, titled Action Strikes. Describing it as "an intuitive, playable orchestral percussion ...

Greg Ellis, the American drummer who was in the city, talks about the origin of drums and his fascination with the instrument. "The drums always came first," he says, adding, "Just like the heartbeat ...