In this excerpt from Eliot Stein's 'Custodians of Wonder,' a writer travels to West African to find an 800-year-old ...

The precursor of the xylophone and marimba, a balafon is made by carefully cutting 21 wooden slats into different lengths, fixing them atop hallow calabashes, and striking them with mallets wound ...

Jane Dzwedzhi (kitchen), Lethabo Motsodisa (club and centre manager), Kefilwe Kgapola (facilitator Grade 1-3 and choir teacher), Kgitsana Maleke (facilitator Grade 8-12 and marimba teacher ...

Tropi-Cali act Red Pony Clock describes their music as “clarinet and xylophone–driven vaudeville-a-delic joy pop, influenced by mariachi and seething with the eternal teenage spirit.” ...

Once you have all your ingredients, simply fill each of the glass jars with a different amount of water - that way, they'll make a slightly different sound! If you want to make things more ...

With five built-in sound activities, there are two maracas, a xylophone, a bell and rain stick. Due to the wooden sticks – or caterpillar’s antennae – you could call it a six-piece band as ...

The lineup of musicians changed during that half-year period. But the musical excellence of Duke, vibraphonist and marimba phenom Ruth Underwood, drummer Chester Thompson and the other players is ...