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Michael Masley

Michael Masley is credited on 22 releases across 12 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1985–2020 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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22

Pressings credited

12

Albums

5

Decades active

42

In collections

Biography

Michael Masley (born September 22, 1952 in Trenton, Michigan, United States) is known for his musical work on the Hungarian cymbalom. His unique method of playing the instrument comes from his invention of the bowhammer, a cross between a fiddle bow and a dulcimer hammer, attached to the finger with a ring. Since 1983, Masley has made his living as a street musician, busking and selling cassette and CD recordings on the streets of Berkeley, San Francisco, and other San Francisco Bay Area locations. Masley describes his music as "earth-folk", "a contemporary Afro-Celtic variation of Free World and Country Eastern music.". Others have categorized his music as new-age or world music. One musician has described Masley's bowhammer style of cymbalom playing as generating "a turkish steambath of overtones".

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Credited work

22 releases · 12 albums · active 1985–2020

  • Other credits · 63
  • Performance · 41
  • Production · 3
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: Sony Studios, Culver City · Record One, Los Angeles · Coptic Cat Studio · Denmark Street Studios, Maidenhead

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