Summary: This great looking Fender FA-15 steel string guitar is perfect for beginning and developing players. The smaller size makes it easy to play, and is great for younger players or travelers, and the unique nato-wood neck gives the guitar a lively tone and feel. A fun and accessible guitar for budding players to get started on their musical journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fender Musical Instruments Corporation 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Gruhn, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miller Freeman Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.87 GRUSummary: A lovely sounding mountain dulcimer with 5 strings (somewhat rare), which creates a fuller sound with double melody strings, single middle, and double bass strings (DD-A-dD). Primarily a Bluegrassinstrument, but can be used for other music as well.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Sight and Sound Equipment, Call number: 5 STRING MOUNTAIN DULCIMERSummary: Learn how you can create infectious, driving rhythms and syncopations in a wide variety of musical styles. The percussive bowing techniques taught produce exciting grooves that can be used to accompany genres from bluegrass to rock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Homespun Video 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.2 STRSummary: Though the violins of Antonio Stradivarius and Guarneri del Gesu remain the gold standard for concert musicians, their prices-often in the millions-and their scarcity place them beyond the use of all but a handful of soloists. This NewsHour program looks at Samuel Zygmuntowicz, the master violin-maker whose replicas and original designs fetch
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Penderecki, Krzysztof
Contents: Orchestral Works Vol. 1. Symphony no. 3 (44:24) / National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra -- Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima for 52 stringed instruments (8:56)/ National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra -- Fluorescences : for orchestra (14:52)/ National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra -- De natura sonoris II for orchestra (8:59) / National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos of America 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Since India's ancient times, music has been considered a potent vehicle for attaining nirvana, spiritual salvation. This intriguing program provides an overview of the history of Indian classical music, from its divine origins to the present day, showcasing popular stringed, wind, and percussion instruments such as the sitar, sarangi, veena, tambora, and sarod; the flute, shehnai, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Thile, Chris
Summary: Chris Thile's new studio album features ten songs originally written as Songs of the Week on A Prairie Home Companion. Thile manned almost all of the stringed instruments and is joined by guest singers Sarah Jarosz, Gaby Moreno, and Aoife O'Donovan.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK THISummary: The biwa, a pear-shaped, wooden lute, is played using a triangular plectrum. With no structured tuning, the instrument is adjusted to complement the player's voice, allowing for a highly personalized music. This program showcases the sounds of one of Japan's oldest stringed instruments through performances by Yoshiko Sakata, a noted biwa player and composer who plays both traditional songs and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The roots and foreign branches of the guitar-family tree. The program looks at the more important of the many relatives of this instrument.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: No other instrument has been as important to the history of Western music as the piano. Since its invention in Florence three hundred years ago, the piano has become many things to many people-a bridge between the worlds of classical and popular music and the ultimate composer's companion. This program traces the ancestry of the instrument and the history of those composers who championed its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Ears of the People is a collection of sublime contemporary recordings of the ekonting, a three-stringed gourd lute played by Jola people in Gambia and the Casamance region of Senegal. The nine tradition-bearers featured on the album share stories of love, heartache, conflict, spirituality, and all that is unique and beautiful in Jola culture over the rolling lilt of the instrument. An important...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN EARRavikiran, N.
Summary: Music for gottuvadyam (or chitravina, according to Ravikiran)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nimbus Records 2001