About John Mark Piper

Birth Name - John Mark Piper / Google Name - PIPERvibe  / Street Name - "PIPER" 

Bio

• Early Music:

  • Berklee College of Music

    • Studied with Gary Burton, Alan Dawson, Gary Chaffee and many other great musicians.

  • Toured playing drum set in Pop Cover Bands

  • Las Vegas

    • Music Director for comedy review

  • Los Angeles

    • Played drum set in top 40 cover bands

    • Street Performer: Solo Vibraphone

  • PIPER Vibraphone:

    • Designed Musser/PIPER M58 Vibraphone

    • Awarded Three World Patents

  • Frame and Fortune:

  •  “Just A Step Away” (solo vibraphone CD)

  • Feature Guest Artist/Clinician/Master Classes at Colleges and Universities in the USA, Mexico, South America and Germany

• Intermission - Music Hiatus

  • New Adventures  and Balance 

    • Joined the Fire/Rescue Service Dallas Fort Worth Metro

      • Worked as Firefighter/Paramedic Dallas/Ft Worth Metroplex

    • Joined the Antarctic Fire/Rescue service.

      • Designed and built “South Pole Vibraphone” for Antarctica. It’s the only vibraphone to reach the South Pole and McMurdo Station Antarctica.

      • Spent 5 years on ice – South Pole, McMurdo Station Antarctica

      • Became a member of JSART (Antarctic Joint Search and Rescue Team consisting of members from USA and New Zealand in Antarctica)

  • Back to Music

    • Started www.PIPERvibe.com “Where Good Vibes Resonate”

      • Working to improve the music arts industry

      • New Products for vibes and marimba

      • Shapes and Patterns of Music Revised Edition

      • Shapes and Patterns of Music Prologue

      • Goal of offering new frames for old bars and resonators

      • Create new audio/video recordings for body of work