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Sakari Dixon Vanderveer

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Tag: world music

An Awesome Discovery: The Balafon

July 28, 2011

Since I am writing another chamber piece that heavily involves percussion, I decided that I would research more percussion techniques in order to expand my “palette” for the instruments, mallets in particular. I don’t quite remember how I found this (it’s so easy to get sidetracked doing research on the internet), but I learned that … More An Awesome Discovery: The Balafon

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