Marimba

Affordable 5.0 Marimba Options for Student or School Use

With ever changing skill level and demand in marimba repertoire being expanded to the lower registers of a 5-Octave marimba more frequently, there is a growing need for affordable 5-Octave marimbas that can meet both student and school use needs. While there are many companies currently making 5-Octave marimbas, we think a few standout in both affordability and value. This weeks blog will cover a few different models that may be right for you and your students, while giving you our recommendations for the options that are the best bang for you buck. Musser MSPM550 5-Octave Marimba The Musser MSPM550 is a padauk bar 5-octave marimba that is a newer offering in the 5-octave options available on the market today. The bar sizes are slightly smaller than some of the other offerings in the market, but as a student model for someone needing an at home practice instrument that they can also perform on, this is a great choice. The frame is height adjustable, although the it is not as easy to adjust as other models on the market. This model is an excellent option if budget is your number one concern. Price – $6394.95 Bar Type – Padauk Resonators –

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Oct 24, 2024 No Comments

Upgrade Your Beginning Percussion Rental at Chops

Hello! My name is Derek Felix, and I am the manager of Chops Percussion. Chops is the drum and percussion division of Paige’s Music. If you’re still renting your child’s beginning percussion kit from Paige’s and it’s no longer being used, I want to let you know about our upgrade rent-to-own options. To see what we have to offer, please visit this link: https://www.chopspercussion.com/run?useUX=true&id=8&opid=712&_tid=475  here you will find all of your upgrade options, along with pictures and pricing information. You can also apply up to 18 months of your payments on your current instrument towards your new rental, which can lower your monthly payment! If your child is showing a high level of commitment to percussion, now is the time to upgrade their instrument and take their playing to the next level. Please call 317-813-2070 or email [email protected] for more information. We look forward to helping the percussionist in your home get an instrument they’ll love playing for years to come!

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Oct 6, 2020 No Comments

Improve Your Skills This Summer With A Rental From Chops Percussion

Keep improving this summer with a rental from Chops Percussion! Chops has several drum sets and keyboards available for rental that are perfect for home practice. Pearl Decade Maple Drum Set For $69 per month, you will now be able to rent the Pearl Decade Maple set with 830 series hardware, a Sabin XSR cymbal package (14” hi hats, 16” and 18” crashes, 20” ride), and a Pearl D930 drum throne. We’ve had many requests for drum set outfits with upgraded drum and cymbal options, and this package definitely fits the bill. Do you want to hear the Decade in action? Please check out this video (best to listen with headphones or high-quality speakers): Adams MSPV43 Soloist Series Marimba

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Jun 9, 2020 No Comments

Previously Rented Practice Marimbas Available

If you’re in need of a practice marimba for home practice over the summer, now is the time!  We currently have a good inventory of lightly used, previously rented Adams practice marimbas in stock and available for you to take home today.  These are also available on our rental plan at a rate of around 15% below the rental rate of a new instrument.  Give us a call and let us help you keep your chops up this summer! The AMPD30 (top of page) marimba features the same Padouk bars as used on the Best –Selling Soloist Series instruments, giving the player a true graduated bar instrument to learn and grow with. Every tone bar of the Academy 3 octave marimba is hand-adjusted through the sixth overtone using the same bar tuning methods as the top of the line Adams Artist Series instruments. Only Adams is able to consistently produce in-tune instruments with a full and even tone for players at every level. The AMPD33R 3.3 octave Academy Marimba with Resonators (below) is designed to be an affordable option that allows the intermediate student to work on many of the pieces written for a low A marimba, all while still having

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Jun 5, 2018 No Comments

Keep Improving This Summer With A Rental From Chops Percussion

Keep improving this summer with a rental from Chops Percussion! Chops has several drum sets and keyboards available for rental that are perfect for home practice. Pearl Export EXX725S Drum Set This Pearl Drumset package includes absolutely everything you will need to get started on your path to drumming satisfaction, including a set of high-quality cymbals and a sturdy drum throne. [Learn more] Adams MSPV43 Soloist Series Marimba Adams Soloist Series Marimbas offer the precision construction methods and many of the great features found on the Artist and Concert series instruments, and combine them with a number of keyboards and size options ideal for beginners and schools looking for a high quality, wood bar instrument, at an extremely affordable price. [Learn more] Adams AMPD33R Academy Marimba The AMPD33R 3.3 octave Academy Marimba with Resonators is designed to be an affordable option that allows the intermediate student to work on many of the pieces written for a low A marimba, all while still having the full tone and projection of a full size marimba. [Learn more] Adams AMPD30 Academy Marimba The AMPD30 marimba features the same Padouk bars as used on the best-selling Soloist Series instruments, giving the player a true

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May 8, 2018 No Comments

Casey Cangelosi Clinic at Chops Percussion

Come celebrate the grand opening of our new showrooms for Paige’s Music and Chops Percussion with a FREE clinic and performance by Casey Cangelosi, Majestic artist and Director of Percussion Studies at James Madison University! The clinic is this Thursday, November 16th, at 7pm. Seating is very limited, so please reserve your tickets here. Casey is commonly hosted world-wide by educational institutions, music festivals, and educational seminars. He has been a visiting guest artist in Italy, Germany, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Croatia, Sweden, Taiwan, and widely across the U.S. at events including the The Midwest Clinic and PASIC Showcase Concerts. Casey is a regularly commissioned composer and from the percussion community called the “Paganini of Percussion” and “The voice of a new generation”. A big Thank You! goes out to our friends at Majestic for sponsoring this clinic.

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Nov 14, 2017 No Comments

Katarzyna Mycka Masterclass & Concert at Lawrence Central High School

International marimba virtuoso Katarzyna Mycka will present a master class next Tuesday, November 8th at 7pm in the Lawrence Central Auditorium. The master class will be followed by a concert of her marimba quartet from 8-9pm. Admission is for both events is $10 at the door. About The Performers: Critics have given the internationally renowned marimba virtuoso and chamber musician Katarzyna Mycka the sobriquet “she who dances with the mallets”: “the greatest fluidity”, “perfect mallet technique,” and a “marvelous, rhythmic precision” are characteristic for the musician, who is able to simultaneously produce up to six tones on her concert marimba with the sixty narrow wooden bars and resonance pipes. After receiving training in piano and drums, the artist born in 1972 discovered the marimba as her “ideal medium for musical expression” while studying at music academies in Gdansk, Stuttgart, and Salzburg. Numerous prizes and awards at international music competitions then followed: in 1995, first prize and audience prize at the International Percussion Competition Luxembourg for Marimba Solo, one year later first place at the First World Marimba Competition Stuttgart. Then followed stipends and invitations to master courses in the United States, Asia, and various European countries, through which the young

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Nov 1, 2016 No Comments
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