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== Marimba Eroica == | == Marimba Eroica == |
Built 1954 | {{youtube>RV6W_gtR-Z0}} |
| Originally Built 1954 as 3 tone bars that were played in a vertical position at Mills college, later it was expanded to four bars that were played horizontally. |
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{{https://microfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ChrisBanta-MarimbaEroica.jpg}} | {{https://microfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ChrisBanta-MarimbaEroica.jpg}}\\ |
| Image of Chris Banta in front of the Marimba Eroica Copy that he built for the Partch Ensemble. |
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"Weighing in at 847lbs., the resulting instrument has four pitches: A-56Hz, E-42Hz, C-33Hz, and heaven forbid, an infrasonic super low F at 22Hz! The tone of this low F is not detectable by human hearing." ((https://microfest.org/genesis-of-an-eroica/)) | "Weighing in at 847lbs., the resulting instrument has four pitches: A-56Hz, E-42Hz, C-33Hz, and heaven forbid, an infrasonic super low F at 22Hz! The tone of this low F is not detectable by human hearing." ((https://microfest.org/genesis-of-an-eroica/)) |
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| Chris Banta has detailed diagrams for how to construct his copy of the original instrument ((https://www.ccbanta.com/_files/ugd/23a53e_538221c6986c4a1085166a43b0f85de8.pdf)) ((https://www.ccbanta.com/special-project-marimba-eroica)) \\ |
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== Boo I & II (Bamboo Marimba) == | == Boo I & II (Bamboo Marimba) == |