THE
BEATLES
The most influential rock band in pop history, the Beatles'
music continues
to attract fans from around the world. It was twenty years ago today...
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CELIA
CRUZ
Celia Cruz, the
"Queen of Salsa", was one of the most
successful Cuban
performers of the 20th century, with twenty three gold albums to her
name.
Celia is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure
in the history of Afro-Cuban music. AZUCAR!
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ani
cursors.
CLASSICAL
COMPOSERS
The era of the
great classical composers may be at an end, but
their
music will live on as long as there are those who listen to the
ethereal
beauty of their masterful compositions. A completely unique collection
of cursors of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Dvorak, Haydn,
Liszt, Mozart, Offenbach, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rossini, Schubert,
Schumann,
Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi and Wagner.
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busy
and working cursors.
EPIPHONE
GUITARS
The Epiphone story
started in Greece and continued to
Nashville, Tennessee
as a division of Gibson Musical Instruments. Epimanondas (Epi)
Stathopoulo
combined his name with phone, the Greek word for sound and began using
Epiphone as a brand name on banjos.He registered the Epiphone brand
name
in 1924.
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FRENCH
HORNS
The leader of the
brass section is the French horn. When it
was first
made, nobody used it indoors because of its harsh sound. In
France,
the nobility used the horn during hunts, and made up special codes to
signal
each other. It was even used by the night watch to call when there was
trouble.
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GIBSON
FLYING V
Gibson's original
Flying V of 1958 was so far ahead of its
time that
even the first reissues, almost 10 years later, were only moderately
successful.
Finally, in the late 60s and early 70s, progressive rockers embraced
the
V, and the 1967 version lives on today.
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GIBSON
GUITARS-RED
Born in New York
in 1856, Orville Gibson headed west to
Kalamazoo, Michigan,
in the 1880s. By 1896, Gibson was able to produce mandolins on a full
time
basis. During the 1920s, Gibson was also one of the first manufacturers
to experiment with the electric guitar, twenty years before it found
popular
success. Gibson experienced remarkable growth in the 1950s, aided in
part
by the introduction of the famous Les Paul guitar in 1952.
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GIBSON
GUITARS-WHITE
By the time Gibson
began work on its first electric guitar,
the company
had a 40 year tradition of quality and innovation to uphold. Today's
Gibson
electric guitars represent the history as well as the future of the
electric
guitar. The models whose designs have become classics-the ES-175,
ES-335,
Flying V, Explorer, Firebird, SGs and Les Pauls-are a testament to
Gibson's
wide appeal, spanning more than four decades of musical styles.
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of
12 cursors.
GIBSON
SG GUITARS
In the early 60s,
Gibson came up with a radical new guitar to
inject
a shot of adrenaline into the Les Paul line. They named the new guitar
SG, which stood for Solid Guitar. This high power classic has been
driving
pop, rock and blues for more than 40 years.
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GUITARS
It is believed
that the history of the guitar began in ancient
Babylonia.
In Egypt and Rome, instruments had features that could be the
predecessor
of the guitar. During the 20th century, technological progress and the
development of mass media communications had become responsible for the
tremendous popularity of the guitar.
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static and
3 ani.
JIMI
HENDRIX
One of the most
influential pop figures of the 20th century,
Hendrix
left a rich legacy of music that was ahead of its time. He continues to
be an inspiration to many musicians and non musicians alike. Have you
ever
been experienced?
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cursors.
MICHAEL
JACKSON
Michael Jackson
was unquestionably the biggest pop star of the
80s,
and certainly one of the most popular recording artists of all time. It
doesn’t matter if you’re black or white, he supplies the beat heard
around
the world.
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ani cursors.
KEYBOARDS
The piano, first
known as the pianoforte, was developed from
the harpsichord
around 1720 by Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua, Italy. Around 1780, the
upright piano was created by Johann Schmidt of Salzburg, Austria and
later
improved in 1802 by Thomas Loud of London whose upright piano had
strings
that ran diagonally.
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different colours.
MUSIC
NOTES
Around 800 A.D. in
Rome, music notation started to be
developed. At
first it was crude, no more than a simple curve to indicate that the
pitch
should rise or fall. Then around 1160 in Paris, the familiar five lines
of the staff could be seen with the music notation, giving a clearer
sense
of pitch. Around 1400 in England, the system of notation began to
resemble
our modern form, with open and closed notes.
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cursors
in 4 different colours.
PIANOS
Since about 1450,
keyboards have virtually remained the same,
except
for a little variation in the colour of the keys, as the older ones had
the reverse of the present day key colouring. The year 1709 is the one
most sources give for the appearance of an instrument which can truly
be
called a Pianoforte, created by Bartolomeo Cristofori.
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cursors.
PIANOS
Today's grand
pianos are direct descendants of harpsichords
built in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Around 1700, Bartolomeo
Cristofori
experimented with creating a harpsichord that could play music more
expressively,
and devised an action that struck the strings with hammers, differing
from
harpsichords that plucked the strings with quills.
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POP
AND JAZZ
These giants of
the music world - Ray Charles, Ella
Fitzgerald, Stevie
Wonder, George Gershwin, Wes Montgomery and Barry White - have enriched
the lives of millions of fans all around the world for decades. Their
influence
continues to this day, and will probably reach far into the future for
as long as we have ears to listen with.
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busy and
working
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STRATOCASTER
Leo Fender's
intention in building the Stratocaster was more
than simply
adding a new guitar to his successful line, which already included the
highly popular Telecaster. Packing his new model with the
latest
Fender firsts, he hoped to outdo all other guitar inventors and make
all
other electric guitars obsolete.
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STRATOCASTER
HEAD
Leo Fender had
worked as an accountant and radio repairman
before taking
up musical instrument manufacturing during the waning days of World War
II. He started designing the Stratocaster in 1953 for musicians who
were
destined to shape popular music for the next forty years.
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cursors.
SUNBURST
STRATOCASTER
The Stratocaster
has become the most commercially successful
and copied
electric guitar design in history. The almost endless list of
Stratocaster
playing stars include Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Bonnie
Raitt,
Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Mark Knopfler. In 1954, it was a
guitar
for tomorrow. Astonishingly, after 40 years, it still is.
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cursors.
TROPICAL
INSTRUMENTS
Latin music
includes the music of many countries and comes in
many varieties,
from the simple, rural conjunto music of northern Mexico to the
sophisticated
habanera of Cuba. Traditional instruments have given this music an
expressive
and distinct sound.
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TROPICAL
INSTRUMENTS
Son, Salsa,
Merengue, Mambo, Montuno, Guaguanco, Calypso and
the list
goes on, are played using a variety of musical instruments, such as the
congas, bongos, clave, maracas, timbales, shakers and cowbells to name
only a few.
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ani cursors.
VIOLINS
The violin, by all
accounts, originated in Northern Italy
during the
first half of the 16th century, but the inventor is unknown and will
remain
open to discussion. Most scholars credit Andrea Amati of Cremona
(c.1511-1577),
as the first known violin maker.
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