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  2. Handpan - Wikipedia

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    Handpan is a term for a group of musical instruments that are classified as a subset of the steelpan. Several handpan makers and brands have emerged in recent years, resulting from a growing worldwide interest in the Hang , which is an instrument developed by the company PANArt that is based on the physical properties of the Trinidadian ...

  3. Hang (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The Hang (German pronunciation:; [1] plural form: Hanghang) [2] is a type of musical instrument called a handpan, fitting into the idiophone class and based on the Trinidad & Tobago steelpan instrument. It was created by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer in Bern, Switzerland. The name of their company is PANArt Hangbau AG. [3]

  4. Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound In The Arts - Wikipedia

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    Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts is a book by historian and theorist Douglas Kahn.First published in 1999, the book charts a history of sound in the arts through the arc of modernism, the avant-garde, late-modernism, the experimentalism of John Cage, the work of the generation following him including artists such as Allan Kaprow, George Brecht, and Yoko Ono, as well as ...

  5. Timeline of audio formats - Wikipedia

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    An audio format is a medium for sound recording and reproduction.The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of the audio content—in computer science it is often limited to the audio file format, but its wider use usually refers to the physical method used to store the data.

  6. History of sound recording - Wikipedia

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    Ring-and-spring microphones, such as this Western Electric microphone, were common during the electrical age of sound recording c. 1925–45.. The second wave of sound recording history was ushered in by the introduction of Western Electric's integrated system of electrical microphones, electronic signal amplifiers and electromechanical recorders, which was adopted by major US record labels in ...

  7. Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History - Wikipedia

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    Since the chart combines secular history with biblical genealogy, it worked back from the time of Christ to peg their start at 4,004 B.C. Above the image of Adam and Eve are the words, "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" (Genesis 1:1) — beside which the author acknowledges that — "Moses assigns no date to this Creation.

  8. Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound - Wikipedia

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    The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound is a reference work that, among other things, describes the history of sound recordings, from November 1877 when Edison developed the first model of a cylinder phonograph, and earlier, in 1857, when Léon Scott de Martinville invented the phonautograph. [1]

  9. Washboard (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] The song is almost entirely centered around the sound of the washboard, captured by a small clip-on microphone. The sound is then sent through a wah-wah and other effects pedals to create a fresher, more innovative and up-to-date sound for the washboard. Robin Rapuzzi is the washboard player for New Orleans old-time jazz band Tuba ...