December 18, 2010
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Interviews with Roger Linn
Instrument designer and musician Roger Linn is perhaps most famous for inventing the first drum machines (in the early 1980s) to use digitally sampled drum sounds, the LM-1 and LinnDrum. In the years since, Linn teamed up with Akai to invent the MPC-series of drum machines/sequencers, and lately Linn has turned his attention to making… Continue reading
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On Shivkumar Sharma
One of my favorite musicians is North Indian santoor player Shivkumar Sharma.* The santoor is a 72-string box zither of Persian origins. Here is a painting of Iranian women playing the santoor’s predecessor, the santur, circa 1669: Sharma was the first musician to use the instrument in North Indian classical music, giving his first performance in 1955. One plays… Continue reading
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