Birth Name - John Mark Piper / Google Name - PIPERvibe / Street Name - "PIPER"
Bio
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Early Music:
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Berklee College of Music
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Studied with Gary Burton, Alan Dawson, Gary Chaffee and many other great musicians.
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Toured playing drum set in Pop Cover Bands
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Las Vegas
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Music Director for comedy review
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Los Angeles
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Played drum set in top 40 cover bands
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Street Performer: Solo Vibraphone
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PIPER Vibraphone:
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Designed Musser/PIPER M58 Vibraphone
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Awarded Three World Patents
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Frame and Fortune:
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“Just A Step Away” (solo vibraphone CD)
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Feature Guest Artist/Clinician/Master Classes at Colleges and Universities in the USA, Mexico, South America and Germany
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Intermission - Music Hiatus
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New Adventures and Balance
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Joined the Fire/Rescue Service Dallas Fort Worth Metro
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Worked as Firefighter/Paramedic Dallas/Ft Worth Metroplex
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Joined the Antarctic Fire/Rescue service.
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Designed and built “South Pole Vibraphone” for Antarctica. It’s the only vibraphone to reach the South Pole and McMurdo Station Antarctica.
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Spent 5 years on ice – South Pole, McMurdo Station Antarctica
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Became a member of JSART (Antarctic Joint Search and Rescue Team consisting of members from USA and New Zealand in Antarctica)
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Back to Music
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Started www.PIPERvibe.com “Where Good Vibes Resonate”
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Working to improve the music arts industry
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New Products for vibes and marimba
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Shapes and Patterns of Music Revised Edition
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Shapes and Patterns of Music Prologue
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Goal of offering new frames for old bars and resonators
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Create new audio/video recordings for body of work
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