• The Musical Instrument Bank is a repository of string instruments maintained by the Canada Council for the Arts. It was established in 1985. Every three...
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    A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it...
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    Arts. Retrieved 2021-01-22. "Musical Instrument Bank". Musical Instrument Bank. Retrieved 2021-01-22. "Instrument Bank grants rare violins, cellos to...
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    Quebec, Canada 2012 Winner of the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2013 Recipient of the Vadim Repin Scholarship...
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    "ex-Heath" Guarneri del Gesu violin by the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank competition. She is the first ever violinist to earn First place...
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  • from the original on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2015. "Musical Instrument Bank: Emma Meinrenken". The Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 5...
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    the 18th century and has since remained one of the most important musical instruments in Iran and the Caucasus, particularly in Persian music, while Azerbaijani...
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    The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) is located in Phoenix, Arizona. Opened in April 2010, it is the largest museum of its type in the world. The collection...
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    A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples (portions of sound recordings). Samples may comprise elements such as...
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    The koto (箏 or 琴) is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese zheng and se,...
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  • cellist. She is a first-place winner of the 2006 Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank National Competition, which included a three-year loan of the Bonjour...
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    The Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) (French: Musée des instruments de musique; Dutch: Muziekinstrumentenmuseum) is a music museum in central Brussels...
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    Daf (category Kurdish musical instruments)
    as dâyere and riq, is a Middle Eastern (mainly Iranian) frame drum musical instrument, used in popular and classical music in South and Central Asia. It...
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  • Competition and has been among the winners of the Canada Council’s Musical Instrument Bank Competition in 2009, 2006 and 2003. DuWors has collaborated with...
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  • 2015-09-28T00:00:00+01:00. "Canada's Musical Instrument Bank names 2015 recipients of fine stringed instruments". The Strad. Retrieved 2021-11-14.{{cite...
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  • now on loan to Denis Brott from the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank. Thomas D'Urfey – Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy,...
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    The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, music sampler, and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by...
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  • for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank and is on loan to the Canadian cellist Denis Brott. Other musicians who own or play Tecchler instruments include Anne...
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    Zither (category German musical instruments)
    ancient and modern. Many of these instruments have been sampled electronically and are available in instrument banks for music synthesizers. In Europe...
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    MIDI (/ˈmɪdi/; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical...
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    A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which...
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  • fictional instruments; such music has been said to be "difficult to describe". In the 2012 science fiction novel The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks, the...
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    known as GM or GM 1) is a standardized specification for electronic musical instruments that respond to MIDI messages. GM was developed by the American MIDI...
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  • ARP Instruments, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969. It created...
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    Marimba (category Costa Rican musical instruments)
    this file? See media help. The marimba (/məˈrɪmbə/ mə-RIM-bə) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck...
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  • study of musical instrument in Georgia Only the mountain inhabitants of Georgia preserve the bowed Chuniri in its original form. This instrument is considered...
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    Stradivarius (category String instruments)
    Spring 2014 the "Macdonald" viola was put up for auction through the musical instrument auction house Ingles & Hayday in conjunction with Sotheby's via silent...
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    Bullroarer (category Australian musical instruments)
    The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances. It...
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    Yamaha Corporation (category Musical instrument manufacturing companies of Japan)
    Japanese musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer. It is one of the constituents of Nikkei 225 and is the world's largest musical instrument manufacturing...
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    Gjallarhorn (category Mythological musical instruments)
    Gjallarhorn. Scholar Rudolf Simek comments that the use of a horn as both a musical instrument and a drinking vessel is not particularly odd, and that the concept...
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