Marimba

The springless string tension holder for the bar string is a must! It's so easy, improves the sound of the instrument by allowing the player to easily choose the tension on the string and as the string stretches over time, you don't have to re-adjust the knot in the string (you know what I'm talking about).

You can also maintain an endless ball of string on one end of each set of bars so that as the string wears, you can just pull it through the bars and cut the old string off. I keep a ball of string in a small felt bag hanging on the low end of the instrument.

This is our live Video,
recorded in 'Kunstfabrik Schlot'(Berlin). This weekend, we finally had our CD-Release Concert at 'Á Compas', which is a flamenco-dance studio in Berlin. We had a great concert with fantastic guests and got a lot of interest for our new CD 'Some other Dances', which is also available on itunes or amazon. Check it out!
Greetings from Berlin!
Franz Bauer
www.franzbauer.com

Franz Bauer - Harald Kündgen Duo

Making Of " Some Other Dances "

10/22/2014

Schloss Britz, Berlin, Germany

Franz Bauer - Harald Kündgen Duo
& very special guests

CD Release " Some Other Dances "

Franz Bauer ( vibes & marimba )
Harald Kündgen ( vibes & marimba )

10/08/2016
08:30pm
a compás, in den Höfen am Südstern III, 10967 Berlin, Germany

https://www.google.de/maps/place/a+compás+Studio%26Location,+Hasenheide…

aloha ..

sharing his amazing night of music with you all .. over the last couple months I've been working with the great percussionist from spyro gyra Gerardo Velez .. he invited me to be featured on his 2nd night at the blue note in hawaii .. we performed afro blue.. i did a little intro upfront before the band kicked in ,, the axe i used for the gig was the Malletkat double marimba sound ... bring quick setup and awesome for small stages ..

Mahalo

hey,
i just was asked to arrange some pop tunes for percussion ensemble. i tried to figure out a good marimba comping for billy jean by m. jackson. since we got only vibes,marimba and xylo as voices i need to put as much in it as possible. so i stumbled on this cheap sounding but very hard to play independence thing (at least for me)....on piano this would be so easy :)

would you like to play it fast for 4 minutes also on different chords? :)

tarik

I'm hoping members will be able to help me out with some information I need for some materials I'm writing.

Working on the promotion of these brand new publications of 'Mallet Ensemlbe' music.
I arranged/composed these 6 pieces through a commission from 'Zeltsman Marimba Festival' (ZMF) in 2013. They are written for two shared marimbas and a vibraphone (5 performers).
They got published by MRL MUSIC and they are available at
www.mrlmusic.net

I have set the MalletKat Pro on "marimba" User Kit 28 for SouthOfTheBorder, and on "steel drums" User Kit 29 for Margaritaville. For the rest of the gig it was set on "vibes" User Kit 36, which has sustain and dampen functions. The midi sounds are self-contained in the keyboard, and the speaker box is a little CUBE-20X. It's not much of a speaker, but in an upper register, it doesn't matter. And fidelity, in a room full of folks eating dinner and playing with a 14-piece band, is not a major concern.