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	Marxophone Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Marxophone is a musical instrument that has four sets of chord strings (Cmajor, Gmajor, Fmajor and D7) to be strummed with the left hand and two octaves of double melody strings (Cmiddle - C'') which are struck by metal hammers activated by the right hand.
		Marxophones were also produced earlier by the International Musical Corporation of Hoboken, New Jersey under 1912 Patent #1044553.
		Marxophones were billed as easy-to-play and sold on time-purchase plans by door-to-door salesmen as well as through mail-order companies such as Sears.
	www2.netdoor.com /~rlang/marxo/marxop.htm (467 words)

	gizmo-harps with chords
		However, the Marxophone survived until well into the Schmidt era of production, and examples from as late as the early 1940s are known.
		Though other instruments bearing the name "Marxophone" were sold early on, the instruments shown here seem to be the type most often associated with the name, probably owing to the prominence with which it displays it.
		Functionally, this instrument is very like the celestaphone and Marxophone, in that it is another 4/30 chord-zither with integral hammers.
	www.fretlesszithers.com /gizmo.html (2183 words)

	PAS.org: Museum
		When a hammer, mallet, or beater is used to strike the chord, the instrument belongs to the percussion family.
		Two types of chordophones categorized this way are the Marxophone and the Yang Chin.
		Manufactured by, and named after the Marx family, the Marxophone is modeled after the autoharp.
	www.pas.org /Museum/tour/1000.cfm (294 words)

	Discography
		includes a ukelin and marxophone in his performance battery of piano, saxophone-driven virtual world, ba wu, seljefloyte, quena, nishakusanzen, khaen, lu sheng et al.
		Beghtol's marxophone is further included in the "arsenal of instruments" of the eloquent chamber-pop group Flare.
		The melody-double marxophone on the song The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be reminds me of a spooky old-man-bar.
	www.geocities.com /~ukelin/discography.html (3324 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions at the National Music Museum
		The Marxophone has four sets of chord strings to be strummed by the left hand, and fifteen double courses of melody strings which are struck by metal hammers activated by the right hand.
		Although the instruments were billed as easy-to-play, many purchasers were frustrated in their attempts to master them.
		Decades later, marxophones and many other related instruments are being rediscovered in numerous household closets, attics, and offered for sale in antique shops and flea markets.
	www.usd.edu /smm/FAQ.html (1339 words)

	History
		Marx can be numbered as one of a number of late 19th century/early 20th century musical gadget manufacturers who combined two or more instruments into one: the Hawaiian ukelele and bowed violin, in this instance.
		Marxophones are in the permanent collections of the
		Much of the Marxophone* history must be credited to Sam Cronk, from a 1996 posting.
	www.geocities.com /~ukelin/history.html (2339 words)

	Tin Hat Trio - Book of Silk - NuEra Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the overwhelming sadness of the events surrounding the song, lines like "Same blue skies that cheered me on a new day, they're not so far behind" are remarkable for their optimism.From its inception, Tin Hat Trio has defied categorization.
		Featuring Rob Burger on accordion, prepared and toy pianos, celeste, marxophone and harmonica, Carla Kihlstedt on violin, viola, trumpet-violin, marxophone and voice, and Mark Orton on guitar, dobro, banjo, their music is equal parts Eastern European folk, klezmer, tango, blues, Americana, jazz, country and half a dozen other genres.
		The three core members are consummate, classically trained musicians all, their resumes (both as members of Tin Hat Trio and their various solo and side projects) are enough to impress even the most jaded music fan.
	nuera.dinonet.net /Music/Details/B0002IQK86.htm (912 words)

	John Doan \| 3. Carols Of Joy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The simple joy of this American carol is well suited for the tremblelin, an instrument that was sold in catalogues and peddled door-to-door a century ago.
		It also went by the names Marxophone, Mandolin Harp, Celestophone, and Mandolin Guitarophone.
		It has a piano keyboard but lacks those confusing fl keys, and its distinctive sound is created by lead weights bouncing on the strings.
	www.johndoan.com /recordings/wrapped/x3joy.html (237 words)

	Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These are the kind of songs that wind up on shows like Dawson's Creek that in turn visually explore teenagers' angst ridden years and rightly so if the songs are to get maximum exposure out there in the mainstream.
		The production by Boo Hewerdine is a work of art by allowing the songs ample room to breath adding delicate touches like the marxophone whatever that is?) on the deliciously sinister 'Spider Lullaby'.
		It's early days yet but I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot more of this young lady and trust me when I say that Kirsty will get anything like a frosty reception from the media for an album that just has to be heard by anyone who claims to have emotion in their soul.
	www.kirstymcgee.com /frostreview.htm (287 words)

	Music Reviews - The Daily Californian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's an impressive turn, building as it does to falsetto round that still somehow manages to remain grounded in the song's bouncing rhythmic section.
		My pick for best cut of the five is "b," which — improbably, impossibly — patches together western square dance vocals, Bach-like marxophone, and a heavy metal breakdown.
		I don't know if I'd believe a review that claimed genres like these could bleed successfully across a few songs worth of material, let alone a single track, but Pinback does it impressively.
	www.dailycal.org /article.php?id=12056 (689 words)

	CD Baby: CERAMIC: Ceramic EP
		This is apparent in "Down to the Bone," the first song written after his move to New York.
		He continues, "A simple song and a simple method of capturing the guitar and voice simultaneously, two mics placed in what we call in the recording world, "the sweet spot." Harmonium, Marxophone, and Cymbal were added to color the atmosphere created.
		The result is a remarkably vivid sound of vocals and guitar, the sound exposing a vulnerable voice and instrument.
	www.cdbaby.com /ceramic (300 words)

	Rambles: Sylvia Woods, The Harp of Brandiswhiere: A Suite for Celtic Harp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		My favorite has to be "Gypsy Mirage." It has such an astounding layering of instruments and moving parts.
		The walking acoustic bass is bad to the bone, while the Marxophone kicks it into high gear.
		Sylvia Woods plays the Celtic harp, finger cymbals, autoharp, metal-strung harp, Marxophone, percussion, Gwydion harp, wind harp, xylophone and celeste.
	www.rambles.net /woods_brandis82.html (489 words)

	Historic Pensacola - Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For example, joining the ukulele and the violin produced the Ukelin, while merging the zither, guitar, and mandolin resulted in the instrument you see here.
		Manufacturers advertised the Marxophones as easy to play because both the strings and the sheet music were numerically coded.
		This allowed the player to identify when and in what order to play the strings without knowing how to read music.
	www.historicpensacola.org /collections.htm (406 words)

	CD REVIEWS
		Some of the music, such as "The Longest Night" and "Lauren's Lullaby," seems to speak directly to the loss, yet much of the music was composed before Lauren died in a whitewater rafting accident.
		Even without knowing that, listeners will find a new and furious depth in what Orton, Carla Kihlstedt (violin/viola) and Rob Burger (accordion, piano, organ, harmonica, marxophone) achieve in the 15 tracks on this album, which takes its name from an ancient Chinese manuscript detailing cataclysms said to have been caused by various comets.
		Guest artists Zeena Parkins on harp and especially Bryan Smith on the oft-maligned tuba bring an even greater dimension to a celestial masterpiece.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/15/PKGAE7LV7J1.DTL&type=printable (690 words)

	BBC - Experimental Review - Tin Hat Trio, Book of Silk
		The Trio reckon they play 'freewheeling chamber music for the 21st century', which is as good a description as any (though I've yet to see it as a section in my local HMV).
		Using a bewildering array of acoustic instruments from banjo to accordion to violin and (ahem) the marxophone, Rob Burger, Carla Kihlstedt and Mark Orton make music that's rich and accessible but comes with a slightly subversive edge.
		At its best, its myriad influences are transcended to produce something that sounds like something you know, but played like you've never heard before.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/experimental/reviews/tinhat_silk.shtml (538 words)

	MMD Archives: Zither Varieties
		And I have a piano zither, where small keys strike the melody strings with tiny hammers.
		I won't try to describe the Marxolin or Marxophone or "Hawaiian" instruments.
		You can see a parade of all these on eBay: search under "zither." These aren't automatic, but they do try to make music easier to play for beginners.
	mmd.foxtail.com /Archives/Digests/200003/2000.03.10.01.html (448 words)

	zithers
		The Marxophone may have been the only one of Henry Charles Marx's musical inventions that was truly playable.
		The hammers are mounted on metal strips, which give the hammers their spring.
		Fun fact: The Doors didn't have a bass player, but they did have a Marxophone, at least for one song (that song about finding the "next whiskey bar" - can't remember the name).
	www.kahnhome.org /zithers/gizmo.html (866 words)

	FORWARD : FastForward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the album, Burger is supported by bassist Greg Cohen (who has played with the Tom Waits band since 1982) and Kenny Wollesen on vibes, drums and percussion.
		Burger himself plays accordion, piano, claviola, celeste, glockenspiel, marxophone, prepared and toy pianos, Indian banjo, chameberlin, orcheston, Casio, short wave, music boxes and a Hammond S-6 organ.
		His collection of instruments is much larger, but you can only do so much when you're playing 14 songs.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.02.14/fast2.html (612 words)

	Interviews: 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It gives you a plectrum sound that comes from vibrating a metal strip with a hammer on the end.
		Marxophone: The Marxophone is a musical instrument that has four sets of chord strings (C-major, G-major, F-major and D7) to be strummed with the left hand and two octaves of double melody strings (C-middle - C'') which are struck by metal hammers activated by the right hand.
		There are no recordings known of Waits using the Marxophone.
	www.keeslau.com /TomWaitsSupplement/Interviews/98-mar31-kcrw.htm (2495 words)

	Rob Burger / An Interview
		Various archaic keyboards I own include two Chamberlin tape-replay machines (the U.S. prototype of the Mellotron), a Hammond Solovox vacuum-tube synth, an Estey portable pump organ from the 1940s, a Dulcitone, various toy pianos and keyboard glockenspiels.
		I also have a hybrid zither originally made for children called a Marxophone, a Magnatone lap steel guitar, an Indian banjo, a bass harmonica and other various ethnic collectibles.
		I first heard this piece performed on a recording of Dave Tarras, and he gave it such a festive quality.
	www.rootsworld.com /interview/burger.html (3110 words)

	Guitar Zithers, Chord Zithers, Tremoloa, Ukelin, Autoharp, Du
		It takes the melody and accompaniment strings and overlaps them at right angles to each other, to make them easier to play.
		The Marxophone is a basic Columbia zither taken one step further with a row of metal spring-loaded hammers to strike the strings and actually ends up as a rather ingenious hammered dulcimer for typists.
		The mandolin-harp has an array of buttons, which when depressed, lower the automatic pluckers for each string as you shake the whole assembly back and forth to emulate a mandolin tremolo.
	www.minermusic.com /cc/holly,ivy.htm (930 words)

	Mary Youngblood: Beneath the Raven Moon
		This album incorporates other instruments making this an ensemble work of Silver Wave Record's fine musicians.
		The incomparable producer Tom Wasinger plays a number of instruments including zither, bass guitar, hand drum, mandolin, banjo, Cajon, Marxophone, lap steel guitar, ukelele and berimbau.
		Mark McCoin adds some gentle percussion and viola and cellos appear on one song.
	www.zangomusic.com /mayoberamo.html (165 words)

	HMT Catalog: Autoharps, Chromaharps, Bowed Psaltery, Kantele, "Little Picker" Lap Harp
		Strings run more or less parallel to (across) the soundboard, instead of perpendicular like a harp or lyre, and can be bowed, plucked, fretted, or struck with hammers.
		In this family are found such instruments as the autoharp, Chromaharp, various types of zither, Marxophone, tremoloa, ukelin, guitar-o-lin, kanun, bowed, hammered and plucked psaltery (including hammered dulcimer and related instruments such as tsimbl, cembalo, cymbalom, santoor, santuri, yang chin, etc.), kantele, lap harp, etc.
		Ukelins, tremoloas, guitar-o-lins, and other oddball members of the zither family used to be sold door-to-door in the early 20th century.
	www.hmtrad.com /catalog/strings/zither.html (946 words)

	Kwadratuur.be :: muziek meer dan verdubbeld
		Met een centrale plaats voor (alt)viool, accordeon en akoestische gitaar(-achtigen) is het chanson nooit ver weg.
		Trompet, prepared piano en speelgoedpiano en de mandolineachtige klank van de marxophone (citer) passen echter al minder in het clichébeeld, om van de gasten Zeena Parkins (harp) en Bryan Smith (tuba) nog maar te zwijgen.
		Waar sommigen zich met een dergelijke klankrijkdom al zouden beperken tot louter jammen, doen de muzikanten het hier heel wat nauwkeuriger.
	www.kwadratuur.be /releases.php?id=1427 (483 words)

	Tin Hat Trio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After garnering widespread critical acclaim in 1999 for its debut recording Memory Is An Elephant, the San Francisco Bay Area group has charged into the new millennium with Helium.
		Featuring Rob Burger on accordion, piano, pump organ, harmonica, marxophone, Carla Kihlstedt on violin and viola, and Mark Orton on guitar, dobro, and tenor banjo, Tin Hat Trio is an acoustic chamber group that combines intriguing and challenging compositions with a striking command of tone and texture, and a playfully spontaneous approach to improvisation.
		Their style blends tango, bluegrass, contemporary classical, and Eastern European folk traditions with an avant-garde edge.
	cinematexas.org /old/2002-tinhat.html (169 words)

	Rob Burger / Lost Photograph
		I hope enough folks get this, so that Burger continues exploring.
		Rob Burger: accordion, pump organ, piano, prepared and toy pianos, celeste, glockenspiel, chamberlin, orchestron, hammond S-6 organ, claviola, bass harmonica, marxophone, indian banjo, casio, shortwave, music boxes
		All Songs by Rob Burger, unless otherwise noted.
	www.klezmershack.com /bands/burger/lostphoto/burger.lostphoto.html (462 words)

	Gregg Miner: Intro to the Dolceola
		Burnett described a type of zither with a keyboard attachment which played the strings.
		I asked him if it was like a Marxophone (a common instrument, and one I had), where the strings are struck by hammers, but he explained that, no, it was equipped with actual piano keys which somehow plucked the strings like a harpsichord.
		As I subsequently learned, the keys are actually miniaturized piano keys that strike the strings, then dampening or letting them ring just like a true piano.
	www.minermusic.com /dolceola/dolceola_intro.htm (647 words)

	Flare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If you are a fan of vinyl, the Magnetic Fields, or Flare, be sure to check out the recent 7" single of Stephin Merritt's remix of Flare's "Celebrate the Misery".
		Subsequently, they have put out an EP called 'Circa' which is a bit lusher musically (through the use of a marxophone and various ukuleles).
		There are times when quiet and sad really hit the spot, and for those times there is Flare.
	www.hearingmusic.com /flare.html (146 words)

	Mary Youngblood, Beneath the Raven Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It begins with only a flute and drum then picks up the guitar.
		Soon, there is a mandolin, banjo and Marxophone.
		By the time you get the full-bodied accompaniment you will probably be dancing, especially if you do any Irish step dancing or clogging.
	www.rambles.net /youngblood_beneath02.html (595 words)

	Tin Hat Trio : Helium - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		You know you've got a strange sort of magic going on when a scratchy vocal by Tom Waits (on the reprise of the hypnotic, chamber music meets French cafe and spaghetti western title track) is the least bizarre element.
		The trio of Rob Burger (accordion, piano, pump organ, marxophone, harmonica), Carla Kihlstedt (violin, viola), and Mark Orton (guitar, Dobro, banjo) offer a vision of what a chamber music group might sound like if they mixed a studio session for a Western film with a rhythmically diverse, often atonal classical excursion.
		The opening track "A Life in East Poultney" finds a banjo plucking over a droning violin as bells ring in the background.
	ubl.artistdirect.com /store/artist/album/0,,983711,00.html (317 words)

	Adams Avenue 2001 Roots Festival list of performers page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ken and Phee met in music, married and have been doing music together for 20 plus years.
		Phee plays hammer dulcimer, banjo, guitar and an antique instrument called the marxophone.
		They put on a lively, varied show using ken's original songs and poems combined with some western classics and material by other artists.
	www.gothere.com /AdamsAve/BusAssn/RootsFestival/2001/performers4.htm (683 words)

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