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By 1982, Elderly Instruments had about 25 employees but little available space, and so in the following year the owners bought an Independent Order of Odd Fellows building in Lansing, Michigan. After it was renovated for retail use, the company moved into it in January 1984, and in 1986 Werbin bought out McInturff to become the sole owner.
The instrument measures 33.5 inches long, 10 5/8 inches wide at lower end, 3 1/8 deep at the end block. It has a scale of 21 3/8 inches. [3] [4]Owners of octophones have said that the instrument is made with birch neck, neck block, sides and back and a top made of spruce.
Reverb.com is an online marketplace for new, used, and vintage musical equipment, including instruments used by notable musicians. [1] It was founded in 2013 by David Kalt, shortly after he purchased the musical instrument store Chicago Music Exchange and became frustrated with then-available options for buying and selling guitars online. [2]
The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, held by the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre, and Dance in Ann Arbor, Michigan, consists of nearly 3000 historical and contemporary musical instruments from around the world. [1]
The celesta is a transposing instrument; it sounds one octave higher than the written pitch. Instruments of different sizes exist with ranges of three to five and a half octaves. Its four-octave sounding range is generally considered to be C 4 to C 8. The fundamental frequency of 4186 Hz makes this one of the highest pitches in common use.
The octave mandolin (US and Canada) or octave mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted string instrument with four pairs of strings tuned in fifths, G−D−A−E (low to high). It is larger than the mandola , but smaller than the mandocello and its construction is similar to other instruments in the mandolin family.
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The subcontrabass flute is a member of the Western concert flute family.With the length of tubing ranging from 4.6 metres (15 ft) (when in G) to 5.5 metres (18 ft) long (when in C), it is the second largest instrument of the family after the hyperbass flute.