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Norman Nawrocki
Norman Nawrocki (born Vancouver, British Columbia), is a Montreal-based comedian, sex educator, cabaret artist, musician, author, actor, producer and composer. Nawrocki together with Sylvain Côté were the founding members of "rock 'n roll cabaret" band Rhythm Activism. Nawrocki owns Les Pages...
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Accordion
The accordion is a portable box-shaped musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.
It is played by compressing or...
- x Family:
- Keyboard instrument
- x Variations:
- Piano accordion,
- Concertina,
- Bandoneón
- Concertina,
- x Instrumentalists:
- Redding,
- Inventing Edward,
- Renée de la Prade,
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- Inventing Edward,
Violoncello
The cello (plural cellos or celli — the c is pronounced [tʃ], as in the ch in "check", thus "chel-lo") is a bowed string instrument. The word derives from the Italian violoncello. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as...
- x Family:
- String instrument,
- Bowed string instruments
- x Variations:
- Davidov Stradivarius,
- Arpeggione,
- Viol,
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- Arpeggione,
- x Instrumentalists:
- Luigi Boccherini,
- Pablo Casals,
- Mischa Maisky,
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- Pablo Casals,
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard. Widely used in Western music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal....
- x Variations:
- Barrel piano,
- Grand piano,
- Player piano,
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- Grand piano,
- x Instrumentalists:
- Franz Liszt,
- Alexander Scriabin,
- Ludwig van Beethoven,
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- Alexander Scriabin,
Violin
The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello.
The violin is sometimes...
- x Family:
- String instrument,
- Bowed string instruments
- x Variations:
- Baritone violin,
- Bass violin,
- Baroque violin,
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- Bass violin,
- x Instrumentalists:
- Niccolò Paganini,
- Alexander Markov,
- Adam Scow,
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- Alexander Markov,
Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.
The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of their similarity in size, closeness in pitch range (the viola...
- x Family:
- String instrument,
- Bowed string instruments
- x Variations:
- Viola d'amore
- x Instrumentalists:
- Yuri Bashmet,
- Paul Hindemith,
- William Primrose,
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- Paul Hindemith,
Concertina
A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pressed, the buttons travel in the same direction as the bellows, unlike accordion buttons...
- x Variations:
- English concertina,
- Bandoneón,
- Franglo concertina,
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- Bandoneón,
- x Instrumentalists:
- Johnny Clegg,
- Ian Robb,
- William Butler,
- more ▼
- Ian Robb,
Percussion
A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. The term usually applies to an object used in a rhythmic context or...
- x Family:
- x Variations:
- Other percussion,
- Drum,
- Pandeiro,
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- Drum,
- x Instrumentalists:
- Mike Castro de Maria,
- Eureka,
- Scabland Band,
- more ▼
- Eureka,
