June 2015 archive

My Musical Career | Part Twenty-Two

Oslo City Hall

  My Musical Career | Part Twenty-Two   Evansville Years Concluded – Transitioning to Oslo Up until this point, the Evansville/Owensboro years were the happiest and most productive of both my musical and personal life. Musical because of the repertoire I was introduced to and the experience I gained both as a performer and teacher, …

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Instruments| Ludwig Timpani

  Instruments| Ludwig Timpani I have performed on many makes and models of timpani, but I started out as an eleven-year old aspiring musician on an old pair of Ludwig pedal-tuned timpani. These dated from about the late 1930s, and were the template model for what Ludwig later developed into their Universal model pedal timpani. …

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