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James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, [1] [2] [3] he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969).
1 Western Classical. 2 Indian. 3 Irish. 4 Japanese. ... This is a list of notable flute players, organized alphabetically by the musical genre in which they are best ...
(Top) 1 Alphabetical by last name. 2 By style. Toggle By style subsection. 2.1 North American. ... Western swing, country, traditional Andy de Jarlis: Canadian: Métis
Billie "Tiny" Moore (May 12, 1920 – December 15, 1987) was an American Western swing musician who played the electric mandolin and fiddle with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in the 1940s. He played with The Strangers and Merle Haggard during the 1970s and 1980s.
Head joint – the top section of the flute, it has the tone hole/lip plate where the player initiates the sound by blowing air across the opening. Body – the middle section of the flute with the majority of the keys. Closed-hole – a fully covered finger key. Open-hole – a finger key with a perforated center.
Izzy Stradlin (Guns N' Roses) Stradlin was best known for using an ES-175, which he used to record Appetite for Destruction. Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance) is notable for using Gibson Les Paul and SG guitars during the recording of The Black Parade on The Black Parade World Tour. Prior to this, he was known for playing Epiphone instruments.
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Ravi Shankar, a master of the instrument, was the first to make inroads into Western culture with the sitar.. While the sitar had earlier been used in jazz and Indian film music, it was from the 1960s onwards that various pop artists in the Western world began to experiment with incorporating the sitar, a classical Indian stringed instrument, within their compositions.