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Graham Wiggins

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Graham Wiggins (October 25, 1962 – September 7, 2016) was an American musician. [1]

41 relations: Abingdon-on-Thames, Arnhem Land, Baka Beyond, Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, Boston University, Brass, Clarendon Laboratory, Didgeridoo, Doctor of Philosophy, Elcho Island, French horn, Grammy Award, Grateful Dead, Hannibal Records, Indigenous Australians, Key (instrument), Magnetic resonance imaging, Masontown, West Virginia, Melodica, Mickey Hart, Mickey Hart's Mystery Box, Millettia laurentii, Narada, New York City, Northern Territory, Ophicleide, Outback (group), Oxford, Percussion instrument, Planet Drum, Rykodisc, Sampler (musical instrument), Sampling (music), Siemens, Solid-state physics, St Aldate's, Oxford, Street performance, Supralingua, Tomorrow's World, University of Oxford, World music.

Abingdon-on-Thames

Abingdon-on-Thames, also known as Abingdon on Thames or just Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England.

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Arnhem Land

Arnhem Land is one of the five regions of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Baka Beyond

Baka Beyond is a world music group formed in 1992 with members from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures, fusing Celtic and other western music styles with traditional Baka music from Cameroon.

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Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a collection of historic musical instruments, mainly for Western classical music, from the Middle Ages onwards.

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Boston University

Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private, non-profit, research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Brass

Brass is a metallic alloy that is made of copper and zinc.

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Clarendon Laboratory

The Clarendon Laboratory, located on Parks Road with the Science Area in Oxford, England (not to be confused with the Clarendon Building, also in Oxford), is part of the Department of Physics at Oxford University.

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Didgeridoo

The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia potentially within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Elcho Island

Elcho Island, known to its traditional owners as Galiwin'ku, is an island off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

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Hannibal Records

Hannibal Records was a British record label and one of the first to work with the World music genre.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Key (instrument)

A key is a specific part of a musical instrument.

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Magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body in both health and disease.

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Masontown, West Virginia

Masontown is a town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States.

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Melodica

The melodica, also known as the pianica, blow-organ, key harmonica, free-reed clarinet, or melodyhorn, is a free-reed instrument similar to the pump organ and harmonica.

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Mickey Hart

Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist and musicologist.

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Mickey Hart's Mystery Box

Mickey Hart's Mystery Box is an album by former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart.

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Millettia laurentii

Millettia laurentii is a legume tree from Africa and native to the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

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Narada

Narada (Sanskrit: नारद, Nārada) is a Vedic sage, famous in Hindu traditions as a traveling musician and storyteller, who carries news and enlightening wisdom.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Ophicleide

The ophicleide is a keyed brass instrument similar to the tuba.

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Outback (group)

Outback were a world music group founded in the late 1980s by multi-instrumentalists Graham Wiggins and Martin Cradick.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Planet Drum

Planet Drum is a world music album by Mickey Hart, a musician and musicologist who was a member of the rock band the Grateful Dead.

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Rykodisc

Rykodisc was an American record label.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Siemens

Siemens AG is a German conglomerate company headquartered in Berlin and Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad.

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Solid-state physics

Solid-state physics is the study of rigid matter, or solids, through methods such as quantum mechanics, crystallography, electromagnetism, and metallurgy.

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St Aldate's, Oxford

St Aldate's is a street in central Oxford, England, named after Saint Aldate, but formerly known as Fish Street.

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Street performance

Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities.

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Supralingua

Supralingua is an album by former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and his percussion ensemble Planet Drum.

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Tomorrow's World

Tomorrow's World was a long-running BBC television series on new developments in science and technology.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Wiggins

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