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Listening to the gongs at the Memphis Gong Chamber at Memphis Drum Shop may be an experience difficult to duplicate anywhere in the world.
It is a sound- and thermostatically controlled room armored in polished and gleaming metal gongs of all sizes and surfaces. When shop owner Jim Pettit strokes them with padded mallets, the response is like something primordial, the rush and roar between chaos and creation.
... Ed Clift, percussion specialty liaison for Paiste, a world-class gong maker, believes Pettit's 84-in...
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Sports Staff
In the few tense moments before he returns a serve, he locks in, feet apart, racquet holstered on his right thigh. His upper body sways, side to side, and his hypnotic glance shoots across the net at his opponent.
...to face third-seeded Henry Paiste of Northwestern Lehigh in the first round of the s...
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... visited the Johnsonburg mill with Dill Paiste, the production manager of Kennebec, when the mill...
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Eight players or teams from the Lancaster-Lebanon League qualified for the PIAA singles and doubles championships. All eight bowed out of the competition on the first day.
Hempfield senior Andrew Clark picked up the only win in Class AAA singles, defeating Trey Gilmore of DuBois in the first round, 6-1, 6- 1, before losing his quarterfinal match against Conestoga's Kevin Wang, 6-3, 6-2.
... lost to Northwestern Lehigh's Henry Paiste, 6-1, 6-4, in the first round. In Class AA doubles...
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Having played with the likes of Weather Report and Steely Dan, Peter Erskine sees his name most often preceded by a descriptor like "world-class drummer." But as the celebrated drum kit player and teacher is the first to point out, that's not entirely accurate.
Most of the time we're playing on the cymbals. That's what provides the swinging feel and the beat and most of those good things," says Erskine. "The drums are very important, but the cymbals have a mystique and beauty they don't. They are so individual, and it's the most complex sounding of all percussion instruments. It has the most overtones and the most harmonics and the most potential in terms of color.
... cymbal manufacturers, including Sabian, Paiste and the brand Erskine endorses, Zildjian. The comp...
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Ndugu Chancier is known not only as a world-class drummer and percussionist, but also a producer, composer, clinician and teacher. A three time Grammy nominee, he has to his credit an extensive list of performances, recordings, original compositions and productions. As a studio musician, he has performed and recorded with [Miles Davis], [Herbie Hancock], George Duke, Patrice Rushen, Hubert Laws, The Crusaders, Frank Sinatra, Weather Report, Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers, Thelonious Monk and John Lee Hooker.
... has led extensive tours for Yamaha, Toca, Paiste, Remo and Shure. In addition to his acuity positio...
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Andrew Leckey, Director of Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, +1-480-276-3654
...Stefanie Murray, Ann Arbor News. Denis Paiste, New Hampshire Union Leader. Kristen Tatti, Northe...
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... Inc., Manchester; and secretary, Denis Paiste, New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester. Board dir...
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.... NOTE: Coky Garcia endorses PAISTE cymbals and VIC FIFTH drumsticks. . ...
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... by Madonna; Eric Singer's KISS drum kit; a Paiste Cymbal signed by all the band members of Sugar Ray...