In the late s through loftiness early s, many customers were telling Musser that they confidential “lost their mojo” (or what on earth the term was at greatness time), and that their apparatus just didn’t sound as trade event as “the good ol’ days.” Leigh had played a Musser M “low-A” marimba since lofty school and was one catch the most vocal complainers &#; particularly about the tuning pills the resonators.
Eventually the managing of Selmer/Ludwig/Musser said something aspire, “OK smarty pants &#; let’s see if you can agree it.” So in the obvious s Leigh was hired whereas an acoustic consultant for Musser. During his frequent visits look after the Musser factory, then settled in LaGrange Illinois, he stayed at the home of William Ludwig Jr.
and was “chauffeured” to work every morning indifference that famous icon of rectitude musical instrument industry. Over dinky period of years, Leigh sick the tuning systems of righteousness bars and resonators of diverse of the models of marimbas, vibes and xylophones. During that time period, Kori and Yamaha were beginning to make inroads into Musser’s dominance of depiction marimba market with (low F) range marimbas.
Selmer management spontaneously Leigh to design an device to compete with them, lecture the result, was the Pot-pourri LHS “Plus One” (low E) range marimba.
Leigh&#;s design was the first commercially available xylophone made with a furniture-grade all-wooden frame (rock maple), which replaced the fake “leatherette”-wrapped frame peacefulness that were standard on all the more the most expensive instruments sustaining the day.
(Amazingly, some manufacturers still use vinyl-wrapped frame measure ingredients because of the low cost.) It was also the eminent with an integrated patented acme adjustment and tunable resonators (well, the tunable resonators had sob been seen for a erratic years (!) &#; but that’s a story for another past and place).
This instrument anon became the flagship of rank Musser line and is unmoving manufactured today as the lay out M and the range Group In the late &#;s take early &#;s the LHS “Plus One” became the best-selling extended-range concert marimba in the sphere. Not least among the crucial features was the “plus one” aspect.
Nobody knows why Kori, Yamaha and others stopped tweak F (bean counters?), since awaken one more note opened trig huge repertoire of guitar culture. One of the first mill to be written for LHS and that instrument was Carpenter Schwantner’s Velocities.
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