Author: PlayHanghang
Length: 01:46
Michael Greiner, a neighbor and good friend, asked me to upload several Marimba videos for him (that's him on the left in the middle row). He currently teaches in the after school music program 'Smile A While' at Aveson Charter School http://aveson.org/ and constructs musical instruments in classes with students' participation.Michael Greiner created this set of plastic pipe marimbas. On this clip are three generations of prototypes designed to be low cost for use by childrens' programming. The middle row were built with the help of the music class (the performers in this video) The top one (bass version) costs around $200 in materials. The mallets are home made using foam flip-flops mounted to paint stirring sticks. The music is a Michael Greiner original titled Caribbean Fantasy. This recording was of a practice during the school year. The performers had about 4 months practice with this piece along with 12 Bar Blues, Ice Cream, a piece played on Wine Glasses and the Ukrainian Carol (Carol of the Bells) played on another created metal instrument.Filmed at Norma Coombs primary school in Altadena CA in 2007.*** Edited to Add ****Wow, it looks like this video's hit YouTube's front page. Thank you for all the wonderfully kind and supportive comments!