“I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.”
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Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.
Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that.
Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.