Edmund Addison Bowles
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LOCATION: White Plains, NY, United States
Instructor in the Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1951–55. Vice President, American Musical Instrument Society, 1984–88. Author of The Timpani: A History in Pictures and Documents and others.
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Percussion instrument, any musical instrument belonging to either of two groups, idiophones or membranophones. Idiophones are instruments whose own substance vibrates to produce sound (as opposed to the strings of a guitar or the air column of a flute); examples include bells, clappers, and…
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