With these workshops, I've taken a little break from posting lessons. Mainly because I'm away from my studio. But I'm home Sunday and next week we'll get back to work!

I've really had a great time here in Delaware and also in Ireland. Man we are building something great here and it's showing. Vibe players from around the world are coming to hang out and to play and to study. It's really fun to be in the same place as a bunch of other vibe players for several days. It's a lot of vibe talk!

This is my 'weapon of choice' at the moment. A Hungarian hammered dulcimer- the Cimbalom. I got it in February and have been practicing like nothing else!

If it interests you I have attached a chart of how it's tuned- it's all over the shop!

I'm planning to get good at improvising on it and start a manouche band...

H'enjoy!
Andre

The Mallet Kat is an incredible instrument and it makes the pit musician's life much simple. But what about doubles for the show. Now that the percussionist didn't have to drag in timpani, does he still get his doubling fees for playing Xlyo and Timp?

What a great day we had today. Mike balter sent us 52 pairs of mallets! There was a pile of sticks on the floor and after we took a break, half of them were gone! They were going through them and comparing them.

We worked on tunes and forms of tunes today. Mario took us all in for an incredible demo of the Mallet Kat, it was really fun. He is the master of that instrument (he owns the company). I think everybody in the room was blown away!