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When Grant Cambridge thinks back to the time he spent with his grandfather as a child, the blaring notes of a trumpet punctuate his memories. "He always traveled with his trumpet, and sometimes we would play duets because I played the piano," says Cambridge, a fourth-year music composition and audio telecommunications major. Now, those thoughts resound when he's at the School of Music playing a vibraphone, a gift Cambridge made to the School of Music in memory of his grandfather.     Grant Cambridge honored his grandfather by donating percussion instruments to the School of Music. Photo by Rick Fatica "It's really great," Cambridge says. "Everyone is really appreciative and glad to have the opportunity to use it. They not only appreciate having it but the origin of why we have it, too, and that is really nice." His grandfather, Richard Cambridge, was a University of Iowa marching band member and was active in community orchestras. Cambridge and his brother, Brad, made tapes of themselves playing music to give as Christmas presents to their grandparents, who were a fixture at their recitals. "He always took interest in our musical pursuits because it was a big interest and love of his," Cambridge says. When Cambridge's grandfather died in January 2000, his parents encouraged him and his brother to contribute money from the estate to a good cause. Cambridge decided to donate a Yamaha vibraphone and a cash gift to the School of Music's percussion studio. The donation, worth $5,000, was Cambridge's way of continuing the love of music his grandfather had encouraged in him. In addition, Cambridge acquired a matching donation for the studio through his father's company, General Electric. The company contribution and cash gift from Cambridge covered half the cost of a marimba for the percussion studio. "It is really an amazing thing," Director of Percussion Studies Roger Braun says. "And to come from a current student, that is very rare." -- Katie Fitzgerald