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  • New Music Instrument for the BSHS Music Department

    Amanda Robertson|May 30, 2018

    The Big Sandy Music Department received funds from the Big Sandy Education Foundation to purchase a Yamaha Marimba for the percussion section. The marimba is an instrument made out of wood that resembles a piano. It has a row of wooden bars along the bottom where the "white" keys would be on a piano and the row above them would be the "black" keys on a piano. Instead of playing it with ten fingers, it is played with two to four mallets. Once the bar is struck with a mallet, the sound travels...

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