California-based marimba one® is pleased to announce its new artist program. Whether you are a soloist or educator or playing in an orchestral setting mostly, our marimbas are there to bring out the best of your musicianship. The care with which we craft our instruments extends to the artists with whom we build

Franz Bach, Wei-Chen Lin, Jeff Lundrelationships. Full details of our artist program are available at marimbaone.com/artistprogram. Here we introduce three new artists to join Marimba One: Franz Bach (Germany). Wei-Chen Lin (Taiwan), and Jeff Lund (U.S.). Read their profiles on page 3.

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New Artist Program WelcomesFranz Bach, Wei-Chen Lin and Jeff Lund

Honduras Rosewood only grows in Belize and Guatemala and a small region of southern Mexico. It is called Honduras Rosewood because when J.C. Deagan first started using this amazing wood, the country of origin was called British Honduras. In 1973, British Honduras was renamed Belize, but the name “Honduras rosewood” stuck as the common name. Honduras Rosewood is now extremely difficult to purchase and also rapidly rising in cost. Over the past 5 years much of the area where rosewood grows has been illegally poached, and cut and shipped to China. The response of both Belize and Guatemala and the international community has been to highly regulate its cutting. Mexico banned the cutting of Honduras Rosewood in the 1990’s. With this valuable wood growing more scarce by the day, as with all rare tone woods, marimba manufacturers may

have to stop using Honduras Rosewood. Be mindful of your marimba keyboard!

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In This IssueHow to care for your keyboard....................3Quality Control...............................................3New Artists.....................................................3Marimba One in pictures..............................4

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Michael: Everybody in Tune

For a marimba keyboard, the ideal humidity is between 40% and 50%. We recommend using a de-humidifier if the room has high humidity, otherwise the bars will not resonate properly. Another possible cause for lack of resonance is the temperature in the room where the marimba has been stored. The marimba is designed and

Keep your keyboard sounding greattuned to be in tune between 68 degrees and 72 degrees. If the room is either too warm or too cold, this will cause the marimba to not resonate properly. Finally, if you have ruled out humidity and temperature, you can do this with your customer: play the marimba from both the player side and the audience side. Does the bar sound any different? Next, rotate the marimba 90 degrees and again play it from the player side and the audience side. Does the bar sound any different? If it sounds good in any of these positions then it is the room that is affecting the sound of the bar. If the bar sounds the same in all of these different playing positions, then the bar needs to be replaced. Do you need a bar replaced? Or maybe you want your entire keyboard retuned? At marimba one® , we keep detailed records of all the marimbas we build, including keyboard voicing information. To replace a bar, please use our bar chart

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How is it that when you unpack your marimba, it’s always just perfect—no missing hardware, no wobbli-ness, no scratches anywhere on the wood? Thank Michael, marimba one®’s shop assistant. He personal-ly assembles and checks every instrument before getting it ready for shipment. “Since it’s final assembly, I really want it to be perfect, as if I were the musician,” the young Califor-nian says. Michael, who plays guitar, first came to Northern Califor-nia from the Bay Area in 2013 because of his girlfriend. “I love it here because it’s such a forested area, and in my job I work with beautiful wood

also.” The favorite part of his job is putting the frame wood on to the aluminum legs. But most of all, “It’s the environment that’s awe-some here. Everybody is in

Win 2 Pairs of Mallets Submit your favorite performance photo featuring a marimba one® and enter to win 2 pairs of mallets of your choice.Email nicoler@marimbaone.com

above, Ivana Bilic at AfPercu, Strasbourg, France, January 2015

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With a Masters in Percussion Performance and one in O r c h e s t r a l Conducting, Jeff Lund also took on the job of director

of the percussion studio at Central Michigan University, he worked with artists such as Bob Becker, Steve Schick, Svet Stoyanov. Most notable was his experience getting to conduct Ney Rosauro in a performance of his famous Marimba Concerto in the opening concert of the Northwest Percussion Festival.Lund is currently conductor with Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia (SOGO) and an Associate Conductor with the Tacoma Youth Symphony (TYSA). Along with with these conducting positions, he

Franz Bach, born 1965 in Baden-Baden, Germany, started first with piano lessons and at the age of 13 he

began to play percussion. From 1986 to 1990 he studied classical percussion at the high school of music in Karlsruhe. After that he went to Prof. Peter Sadlo for a master study in Salzburg, Austria. Since 1989 he has been working as the principal percussionist at the radio symphony orchestra Stuttgart.In 1993 he started his teaching profession first in Frankfurt, in 1999 he changed to the high school of music in Munich. In addition he devotes on chamber music and plays marimba duo with Katarzyna Mycka, they already released five records.

W e i - C h e n Lin is a r e s p e c t e d m a r i m b a p e r f o r m e r , and chamber, contemporary, and orchestral m u s i c i a n .

Born in 1982 in Tainan City, Taiwan, Wei-Chen is currently based in Boston, MA. Wei-Chen began to study piano at age of 5 and percussion at age of 12. Wei-Chen’s recent marimba repertoire includes music of J.S. Bach, Camille Saint-Saens, Francesco Tárrega, and Lyle Mays. His passion for new music led him to form Hai-Dao Contemporary

Franz Bach, Wei-Chen Lin and Jeff Lundis Affiliate Faculty at the University of Puget Sound, Adjunct instructor in Community Music at UPS, and a Music Instructor at Tacoma Community College where he teaches Music Appreciation, Ethnomusicology, and Digital Music; as well as acting as Assistant Conductor to the College’s Wind Ensemble and Orchestra.His ochestral festival experience includes guest conductor and clinician hroughout the Northwest and Faculty at the Evergreen Music Festival. His competition experience has afforded him the opportunities to perform concerts with 5 different ensembles/orchestras including most recently runner-up in the Seattle Philharmonic Concerto Competition. Jeff Lund is a Liberace and a Hubbard Scholar (both performance based competitions).

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Ensemble in 2014. Wei-Chen won numerous prizes including First Prize at the 2007 PAS International Percussion Competition in Italy, winner of 2013 Taiwan NTCH Young Star Series and many more. In 2014, Wei-Chen was awarded the lifelong membership of the National Music Honor Society Pi Kappa Lumbda. As an active soloist, Wei-Chen has appeared with the Houston Symphony, Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band, and Boston University Symphony Orchestra and gives concerts and masterclasses in Taiwan, Australia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Italy, Thailand, Russia, and the United States and acted as jury member for many competitions including the 2015 Australia Marimba Competition.

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Svet Stoyanov and Katarzyna Mycka at IKMMA 2015 in Hannover, Germany, Ivana Bilic’s marimba carried up

the stairs, Croatia; Ronni Kot Wenzell, Brazil.

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