tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60094511452362109132024-03-13T12:55:49.210+08:00*LET THERE BE MUZIK*Nothing more nothing less simply the best sound of music for the mindCheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-58092537790771318372010-04-25T20:24:00.004+08:002010-04-25T20:31:25.056+08:00ଳ DRUMMERS Bang On<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Given a chance you could bang on anything that produces sound, empty biscuits container, pail, even empty bottles and inside the lift or on the steering wheels provided you have rhythm else..would be thrown out of the car..</span></div><br />
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An amazing street drummer.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Well-loved street performers Bang On! create captivating rhythms using anything from plastic bags and watering cans to a huge junk drum kit, combining music with amazing technique and showmanship. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Hip Hop DrummersCheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com349tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-5561042072097742962010-03-27T22:05:00.003+08:002010-03-27T22:14:50.505+08:00Ð Morin Khuur - Mongolian horse-head fiddle<div style="text-align: justify;">T<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Morin Khuur</span></b> is a Mongolian bowed stringed instrument, horse-head fiddle, is probably the most important musical instrument in Mongolian ethnic group. It is known in Chinese as matouqin. It produces a sound which is poetically described as expansive and unrestrained, like a wild horse neighing, or like a breeze in the grasslands. It is the most important musical instrument of the Mongolian people, and is considered a symbol of the Mongolian nation.</span></div><br />
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Ci Bulag 齐宝力高 and the Horse-head Fiddle Orchestra at Chinese New Year Eve's CCTV Gala in early 1991. <br />
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Mongolian Music in the Library of Congress, DC. <br />
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Mongolian Folk Rock Group <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Imagine there's no Heaven </div><div style="text-align: center;">It's easy if you try </div><div style="text-align: center;">No hell below us </div><div style="text-align: center;">Above us only sky </div><div style="text-align: center;">Imagine all the people </div><div style="text-align: center;">Living life for today </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Imagine there's no countries </div><div style="text-align: center;">It's not hard to do </div><div style="text-align: center;">Nothing to kill or die for </div><div style="text-align: center;">And no religion too </div><div style="text-align: center;">Imagine all the people </div><div style="text-align: center;">Living life in peace </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You may say that I'm a dreamer </div><div style="text-align: center;">But I'm not the only one </div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope someday you'll join us </div><div style="text-align: center;">And the world will be as one </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Imagine no possessions </div><div style="text-align: center;">I wonder if you can </div><div style="text-align: center;">No need for greed or hunger </div><div style="text-align: center;">A brotherhood of man </div><div style="text-align: center;">Imagine all the people </div><div style="text-align: center;">Sharing all the world </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You may say that I'm a dreamer </div><div style="text-align: center;">But I'm not the only one </div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope someday you'll join us </div><div style="text-align: center;">And the world will live as one </div>CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-35378502884325698172010-01-31T23:28:00.003+08:002010-02-01T00:09:19.468+08:00ള HARMONICA<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The Harmonica</span></b>, also called harp, blues harp, french harp, and mouth organ. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes (reed chambers) or multiple holes. The pressure caused by blowing or drawing air into the reed chambers causes a reed or multiple reeds to vibrate up and down creating sound. Each chamber has multiple, variable-tuned brass or bronze reeds which are secured at one end and loose on the other end, with the loose end vibrating and creating sound.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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VJC Harmonica Band concert 2008 - Resonance X When You Believe (from "Prince of Egypt") Year Twos <br />
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Heng Ee Harmonica Band won ensemble champion with the song of Orpheus In The Underworld by Offenbach. Conductor: Cheetion<br />
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This is a beginner HARMONICA LESSON for your "C" harmonica that offers you an exercise for practicing you single note technique. I hope this video helps you with your accuracy with single notes.<br />
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The Harmonitones (Bob Ferguson lead harmonica, Doug Fisher chord harmonica and Erine Beitler bass harmonica) play Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy in the early 1970's. <br />
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Let it be - A great song of The Beatles, was played by Igor Flach. This may be one of the best covered versions for playing harmonica. Let's enjoy his impromptu.CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-31784876111771812282010-01-02T21:37:00.011+08:002010-01-05T18:45:26.671+08:00ള BAGPIPES<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">agpipe</span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">s</span></b> are a class of musical instrument consists of a bag as a constant reservoir for air, a chanter with a number of finger-holes, and usually a three drone pipes to be rested on the piper's left shoulder. The supply of air into the bag is by blowing into a blowpipe or blowstick. The modern blowpipes are fitted with a non-return valve thus saving the piper from using his tongue to cover the tip of the blowpipe while inhaling. I'm amazed that bagpipes do rock which I was not aware of until lately. Whoa they are awesome. Hey thanks to <a href="http://foodientravelbug.blogspot.com/">Mei Teng</a> who brought up this point which I shared the same "I think of Scotland whenever I see bagpipes! Oh and not forgetting the kilts! <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">[mei teng]</span></i>"</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Neil Hubbard has taught the Scottish Highland bagpipes to individuals and groups since the early 1990's. Hubbard also teaches individual bagpipe lessons at his home in Kirkland, Washington.</span></i><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Maui Celtic Bagpipes and Drums band presents: World Champion Bagpiper, Jack Lee, performing at the Makawao Union Church, march 18th 2006. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dozens of types of bagpipes today are widely spread across Europe and the Middle East, as well as through much of the former British Empire. The name bagpipe has almost become synonymous with its best-known form, the Great Highland Bagpipe, overshadowing the great number and variety of traditional forms of bagpipe. For further information on other types of bagpipes and its history check it out with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpipe">Wikipedia</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Red Hot Chilli Pipers on BBC TV's "When will I be famous?" with a rendition by Queen ~ 'We Will Rock You'. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tune from Chris Armstrong "Dreams of a Child".</span></i>CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-87925960002122139692009-12-20T22:23:00.003+08:002009-12-20T22:28:32.966+08:00௫ TABLA<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Tabla</span></b> (Hindi: तबला, Bangla: তবলা, Nepali: तबला, is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in the classical, popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent and in Hindustani classical music. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres. The term tabla is derived from an Arabic word, tabl, which simply means "drum." </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The smaller drum, played with the dominant hand, is sometimes called dayan (lit. "right"; a.k.a. dāhina, siddha, chattū) but is correctly called the "tabla" representing the 'yin' (female) energy. It is made from a conical piece of mostly teak and rosewood hollowed out to approximately half of its total depth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She plays tabla with a lightning speed and full of zest.</span>CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-11541971135435324342009-12-14T21:55:00.007+08:002009-12-15T15:06:25.463+08:00௫ BEATBOXING<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Beatboxing</span></b> is a natural 'noise' without the cables linking to machines where it's some sort of vocal percussion mimicking sound of drum beats, rhythm, and musical sounds by what nature has given us, our mouth, lips, tongue, voice, and more. Beatboxing seems to be connected to the popularity of hip hop in the 1980s and has been an in-thing with the new generation albeit it has been in existence for quite a long time.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vocal imitation of percussion sounds has existed for a very long time. One tradition is thought to have originated in India several thousand years ago: the tradition of bol, and the Chinese developed Kouji, a type of vocal performing arts. These had little or no relation with hip hop, however, and have no direct connection to modern Eastern Hip Hop. Some African traditions use performers' bodies (clapping, stomping) to make musical sounds to maintain a steady musical pace. They made sounds using their mouths by loudly breathing in and out, which is done in beatboxing today. An American style called eefing first emerged in rural Tennessee near the beginning of the 20th century. The term "beatboxing" is derived from the mimicry of the first generation of drum machines, then known as beatboxes. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Recently, a 2009 beatboxing world championship took place where over 52 beatboxers and many female beatboxers competed for the title. The female British winner Bellatrix, and the male Swiss winner, ZeDe, are now the holders of the largest beatboxing title. Michael Jackson is also a well known beatboxer in songs like 'Cry' and 'Who is it', which throughout the songs he uses his natural voice to be</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">atbox. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[wikipedia]</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Guess you have had great fun with your very first experience in beatboxing watching the 7 Steps video #4, hope you did not wet your monitor screen too much with your saliva eh! Good try!<br />
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Green Green Grass of Home Angklung Cinta Nada in Viernheim Germany Deutschland <br />
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Malam Indonesia Juni 2007 di Frankfurt-Jerman. KJRI Frankfurt <br />
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Whoa! Rihanna's 'Umbrella' man this is cool..<br />
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Indonesian Students with Angklung Performance in 17th Kyoto Foreign Students Music Festival 2005CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-22849944597839993562009-11-24T20:26:00.001+08:002009-11-24T20:30:38.883+08:00മ GLASS ARMONICA<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The glass harmonica, with its many names like glass armonica, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica (derived from "harmonia", the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction by rubbing the rims with the fingers whereby is another version of the glass harp invented by Benjamin Franklin after seeing water filled wine glasses played by Edmund Delaval in England in 1758.</span><br />
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Segment from the history channel on Benjamin Franklin's Glass Armonica.<br />
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William Zeitler plays 'Venus - the Sphere of Love' on the Glass Armonica in Hong Kong.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In Franklin's treadle operated version 37 bowls were mounted horizontally on an iron spindle. The whole spindle turned by means of a foot pedal. The sound was produced by touching the rims of the bowls with moistened fingers. Rims were painted different colors according to the pitch of the note. A's were dark blue, B's purple, C's red, D's orange, E's yellow, F's green, G's blue, and accidentals white. With the Franklin design it is possible to play ten glasses simultaneously if desired, a technique that is very difficult if not impossible to execute using upright goblets. Franklin also advocated the use of a small amount of powdered chalk on the fingers which helped produce a clear tone in the same way rosin is applied to the bows of string instruments. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harmonica">[wikipedia]</a></span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">An excerpt from the famous Mozart "Adagio und Rondo" K.617 for Glassharmonica and Quartet, by Thomas Bloch (Glassharmonica) and the soloists of the Orchestre Pasdeloup, during a concert given in salle Gaveau, Paris.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Music by Wolfgang A. Mozart. Played by French artist Thomas Bloch, exhibiting the glass harmonica in the Paris Music Museum, Nov. 29, 2007.<br />
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Vera Meyer plays the Glass Armonica (aka Harmonica) in Harvard Square, Boston, July, 2005.CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-90761355056730731032009-11-17T22:48:00.002+08:002009-11-19T21:19:06.504+08:00മ GLASS HARP WITH CLASS<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">M</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">any would have tried this before rubbing the rim of wine glass or beer mug in pubs or discos only to produce noise or sound but no music. How about making music with wine glass with class with Yesterday?</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wine glass is fine. Best effect is to wash your hands and fingers clean. Hold the glass firmly by the base with the other hand and rub your wet finger around the rim. Eventually you will surely get the glass to resonate. Robert Tiso plays first m. of symphony n°5, by L.V.Beethoven, with glass harp. Cool..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Picture is not that sharp but the music is awesome, fantastic..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Close Encounter of the 'Glass' Kind..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Glass Harpist Alexander Zoltan performs on the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fantastic sound - Vienna street player performs the organ music with his water glasses.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jamey Turner plays something familiar - 'The Moon Represents My Heart' by Teresa Teng - [yuèliang dàibiǎo wǒde xīn] "月亮代表我的心" and Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the "glass harp".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Amazing wine glass music by Jamey Turner. <a href="http://jameyturner.com/">Jameyturner.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Coming up next...Glass Armonica</span>CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-61926387632427785872009-11-11T09:28:00.009+08:002009-11-12T14:55:17.401+08:00മ WHISTLING<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Someone challenged me with this strange question "can you whistle while brushing your teeth at the same time?" Wow fantastic, but replied it's ridiculous cannot be possible and we took a bet saying no way he can do it. The deal is on and the demo is set. He calmly took out his dentures and whistled his way to the bank grinning from ear to ear.. Here are some of the music produced without musical instrument..they are simply awesome!</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Who says girls cannot whistle or not supposed to whistle? Not any more..Those days our old folks would not allow any whistling at night or when passing through jungles or rubber estates. Reasons? Will attract those unseen beings. What about girls who must not whistle in the olden days? Again old folks said no, reasons are the same "all of the above applies plus one strong statement, it's 'unlady like' for a girl to whistle". So up till to today there are quite a number of ladies who do not know how to whistle. What about the girls of the younger generation do you know how to whistle? Not allowed to whistle or just dislike whistling?</span><br />
</div>CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-58556205902393443502009-11-05T21:09:00.006+08:002009-11-05T23:10:28.234+08:00മ BANJO Part II - Homemade<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There are 5-String Bluegrass Banjo, 5-String Open Back Banjo, 6-String Banjo, 4-String Banjo etc etc just to name a few. Scholars have found that many of these instruments have names that are related to the modern word "banjo", such as "banjar", "banjil", "banza", "bangoe", "bangie", "banshaw. What about these names for a Banjo? Cookie tin, wine box, cigar box, brass pan? Let's go banjo-ing..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cookie Tin Banjo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Darling have you seen the new cookies I bought last week? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You wanna pancake with honey? Honey!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whoa high powered vroom banjo player, could beat the world record and be the fastest banjo player.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cigar Box Banjo</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Holy smoke! Message from the owner, "Chainduck" ~ "Total parts cost on this was about $50. A buddy of mine gave me the tuners...The pearl cost me $5 ebay. The head $12, Stove ring $4, The tailpiece was from my first plywood tenor banjo, I built in Jr. High...not a big success...LOL Various nuts and bolts..etc. make up the balance of the cost. The neck was made from scraps off an electric I build a few months earlier. Time to build...180 hours or more...LOL..lots of head scratching."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oil Can Banjo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yummy olive oil banjo, nice song.."God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yeah hold it! I have posted the cigar box before, but this guy is real cool, teaches how to play the banjo so easy going, love to watch him play. Smooth like smoke on the water..</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yamseng Banjo! Made from a Franzia Chillable Red wine box. Its got a fretless rosewood fingerboard, a two-footed bridge, and a Yopp tuner built into the tail piece.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The owner found this salad bowl in an antique shop and has made two salad bowl banjos already. Can someone pass the mayonaise over please!</span><br />
</div>CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-71414994491528299422009-11-01T15:10:00.074+08:002009-11-04T12:23:39.399+08:00മ BANJO<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Banjo </span></b>is a stringed instrument which has its root in Africa. Africans transported to the Caribbean and Latin America were playing banjos in the early 17th and 18th centuries before America. Africans in the US were the predominant players of this instrument until the 1840s. Originally the banjos were made out of gourds and skins. The body, or "pot", normally consists of a circular rim (generally made of wood), a metal tone ring, and a tensioned head, similar to a drum head. Traditionally animal skin were used for the drum head, but synthetic materials have replace most of them today. The strings numbered between three and nine, with four- and five-string banjos being popular. In almost all of its forms, the banjo's playing is characterized by a fast <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggiated">arpeggiated</a> plucking, although there are many different playing styles. They can be played like strumming a guitar, bowed or plucked like a harp. Today, the banjo is commonly associated with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music">country</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music">folk </a>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass_music">bluegrass music</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What is a gourd?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How Banjos are made..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Banjo lesson: Forward/Backward Roll, Alternating Thumb Roll..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Using fingerpicks and tuning..This great video teaches you how to use your fingerpicks. Special thanks to David from musicmoose.org for this wonderful tutorial .</span><br />
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Banjo crash course..<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Country Guitar "Duelling Banjos" - By Paco Pascual. Haha this was the tune that got me interested in the sound of banjo when I was a kid and bingo so glad I found it..YeeHaw!</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Master of the banjo Gerry O'Connor plays two reels: "The Bag of Spuds" and "The Copperplate". These tunes were recorded in Gerry's hometown of Nenagh in October 2004, just after the release of his CD, "No Place Like Home." </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Florida Today Coverage and footage of the Guinness Event Worlds Fastest Banjo Player, Grammy Nominated Banjo Player Todd Taylor Sets New World Record.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Banjo Hall of Fame, Tim Allan, plays solo Tenor Banjo, The William Tell Overture is often known as.. "Hi-yo, Silver!", The Lone Ranger!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Steve Martin & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown. I cannot help myself for not shaking my head while listening and watching..COOL!!!</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guinness World Record - 59 Banjoists Play Foggy Mountain Breakdown by the legendary Earl Scruggs. Are you able to spot the only one 'leftie' out of the 59 Banjoists?</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Coming up next: Banjos made from cookie tin, cigar box, oil can, wine box etc? Huh!!!!</span>CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-33230677877517842072009-10-26T21:31:00.003+08:002009-10-26T21:41:05.455+08:00ø LEAF THE MUSIC ALONE<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Many would have tried this before leaving out musical instruments to make music with leaf by holding it on your lower lip. Some might have tried using hack's wrapping paper as well. Well let's get some up-close on leaf music for a change. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whoa this guy Ricky from Taiping, Malaysia and name of the song "The Bund" 上海灘; pinyin: Shàng Hǎi tān; & "Bangawan Solo"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Place ~ Trikut hills, Jharkhand, India.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This man's name is Carlos Garcia, Mexico.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Hmong village girl from Laos</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Music Instrument: Leaf of Spathiphyllum, Player: "Leafman" from Japan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chi Mao is a tour guide in Sapa.</span>CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-8231767962978077532009-10-22T22:44:00.015+08:002009-10-23T18:59:10.213+08:00ø WADAIKO YAMATO - The Drummers of Japan<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wadaiko Yamato</span></b> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.yamato.jp/" style="color: #551a8b;">倭</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">is a Japanese musical group of taiko drummers, brain-child of Masa Ogawa formed in 1993. "Wadaiko" means Japanese drum and "Yamato" was the former name of the city, the present day Nara prefecture, the group's birthplace. It all started when the group played a piece called "Hyuga" composed by Masa Ogawa in a festival held at the Toichi Shrine in Kashihara-shi, Nara. Ever since then, the group has made over one thousand live performances to over one million people in more than 20 countries in across the globe. It was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1998 the group performed their international debut and was awarded the "Spirit of the Fringe" award. Subsequently a year later they headed for more performances on three international tours, covering South America, six countries in Europe, and Israel.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you have subwoofers, turn them up max! Whoa! You gotta feel the vibration it's sensational..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wadaiko Yamato performing at 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures in Monterrey, Mexico on Sep 28 and 29 2007.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let's get more technical and let's see what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocarina">Wikipedia</a> has to say:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How an ocarina works:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1.Air enters through the windway </span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2.Air strikes the labium, producing sound </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3.Air vibrates throughout the inside of the ocarina </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The ocarina, unlike other vessel flutes, has the unusual quality of not relying on the pipe length to produce a particular tone. Instead the tone is dependent on the ratio of the total surface area of opened holes to the total cubic volume enclosed by the instrument. This means that, unlike a flute or recorder, sound is created by resonance of the entire cavity and the placement of the holes on an ocarina is largely irrelevant — their size is the most important factor. Instruments that have toneholes close to the voicing/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embouchure">embouchure</a> should be avoided, however, because this weakens tonal production since an ocarina is a <a href="http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/Helmholtz.html">Helmholtz</a> resonator.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ogenkidesu! Nonamesan, sorry not able to find out this Japanese music teacher's name, he sure has all the talent and ability to make veges ocarina. Take my hat off for him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Of all the veges think the best sound comes from the broccoli and carrot.</span>CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-75900374333892182112009-10-16T17:45:00.086+08:002009-10-18T10:42:12.935+08:00ø The BIG Bibik & The Little Nyonyas - Episode 5<div style="text-align: justify;">I<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">t took me quite awhile to decide participating in this 'wok-ing' contest. Wonder it smells fishy for a muzika blog to blend into foodie as it could be an utterly 'mis-steak'. However a peek into the webisodes altered my decision. Will let the foodie experts 'wok' the talk while I'll talk no wok. Furthermore it would be a big surprise to know that veges can make music besides being good as 'microphone' by Vanessa and Meng Meng in episode 6. Let there be music and you shall have music from 'A'spragus to 'Z'ucchini. I shall post about the veges music soon.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Very glad to have the opportunity and the generosity of <a href="http://foongpc.blogspot.com/">foongpc</a> to come out with this contest who is a crafty blogger himself, always keeping the viewers in suspense with his abrupt 'ending' so as to keep them hungry and craving for more. Must jointly thank foongpc and also <a href="http://quachee.blogspot.com/">QuaChee</a> for sharing this series of webisodes on cooking made easy by BIG Bibik with the recommended recipes for cooking enthusiasts. As the saying goes 'the way to a person's heart is to 'wok' by the stomach'. Check this out and you would be amased how simple it would be to cook 'Sambal Bendeh' (Orkra Salad), commendable excellent acting by BIG Bibik and also the three little gorgeous and playful nyonyas for spicing up the webisodes. Eminently good storyline with a couple of hilarious 'whacking' and 'bashing' for mistakes committed by the ignorant little nyonyas. Whoa! I love the sound effects and graphics which added more sugar and spice into the peranakan cooking especially the part where the whole house was shaking with the throbbing sound of a sledge-hammer to amplify the pounding of chillis and belacan. Sugar is a must in nyonya cooking and guess you may agree with me BIG Bibik's 'little' bit of sugar weighs almost a 'kilogram' [<i>chuckle</i>]. No wonder the Nyonyas are so sweet and lovely. Kudos and congratulations to the whole webisodes team.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not debating on how the name came about as it is obvious (二, èr, two) refers to the two strings and some states that it comes from the second highest pitch. The second character (胡, hú) has a high possibility in relation to a member of the huqin family originated from a Mongolian tribe. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The shape of erhu is like a drum like usually hexagonal and 13cm in length which is covered with python snake skin at the front and the back is left open. It function as a music box amplifying the vibrations of the strings. The same material of ebony or sandalwood is used for the drum and the neck measuring about 81cm with two tuning pegs at the end of the stem. There is no frets or touching board, the player creates different pitches by touching the strings at various positions along the neck of the instrument.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The bow is 81 cm long arched with horse hair in the same way as the bow of violin and runs between the two strings which were usually silk or nylon but nowadays metal is getting popular. In another word, one cannot take off the bow from the instrument unless one of the two strings is taken off or broken. Professional players were using purpose made D and A steel erhu strings as standard. The cost of a set of erhu ranges from U$144 - U$800.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<object width="400" height="285"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/aetRj4S647M&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&hd=1&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/aetRj4S647M&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&hd=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="285"></embed></object>CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-2412778349641247682009-10-11T22:52:00.004+08:002009-10-11T23:10:34.715+08:00ø KALIMBA<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Kalimba</span></b> is a musical instrument invented in southern Africa some 3000 years ago. The name kalimba is a Bantu word which basically means "little music" and aka African thumb piano. Simply made from a wooden box and a few tines of flattened metal are plucked with the thumb or fingers, and the reed vibrations are amplified by a hollow box resonator or a sounding board. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An Englishman by the name of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Tracey">Hugh Tracey</a>, fell in love with African music and was instrumental in setting up a company called African Musical Instruments (AMI). AMI was responsible for exporting the first kalimba commercially out of Africa in the late 1950s. Tracey founded the The International Library of African Music (ILAM) in 1954, and become its director. ILAM publishes the African Music Society Journal. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A few artists, including <a href="http://bringingbackthegoodtimes.blogspot.com/search/label/Earth%20Wind%20and%20Fire">Earth, Wind & Fire</a>, Jo Mango, King Crimson and Laura Barrett, have also incorporated the kalimba into Western pop music styles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Need more information about Kalimba kindly click <a href="http://www.kalimbamagic.com/index.php">HERE</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalimba">Wikipedia</a></span>CheaHSanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863638944039016050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009451145236210913.post-59355832026478867182009-10-09T13:04:00.013+08:002009-10-09T22:11:02.255+08:00ø SAREGAMA : Organic-Electronic World Fusion<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://saregamatheartist.blogspot.com/">SaReGaMa</a></span></b> is a nick name picked by this composer who has an affinity to Indian classical music thus the name Sa, Re, Ga and Ma, the first 4 notes of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saptak">Saptak</a> or the series of seven notes in a musical scale. He created his music as a hobby which he truly enjoys the most and more than happy to give it away for free merely depending solely on donations. You are free to share, copy, distribute, transmit and remix his music but must adhere to his only condition that it must stay FREE and no profits should derived from it. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He defined his music as Organic-Electronic World Fusion using piano, guitar, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flute">flutes</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo">didgeridoo</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percussion_instrument">percussions</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalimba">kalimba</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew's_harp">jew's harp</a> which are mostly homemade. An ironical part of his musical preferences is he has all ears for almost every music except <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music">Pop</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music">Rock</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_music">Trance</a> and admitted being funny that he began with Electronic music making Trance. For me I love any kind of music as long as timing and mood is in congruence.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Prototypes of the pipa already existed in China in the Qin Dynasty (221 BC–206 BC). At that time, there were two types of pipa. One was straight-necked, with a round sound box constructed from lacquered Paulownia wood, and two faces mounted with leather. The other was believed to be inspired by the primitive forms of zheng, konghou, and zou. It also has a straight neck, a round sound box, and also four strings, along with twelve standards of notes. This model was later developed into the instrument known today as the ruan. The modern pipa is closer to the instrument which originated in Persia/Middle-East (where it was called barbat) and was introduced into China beginning in the late Jin Dynasty (265–420 A.D.).</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The pipa became a favourite in the Tang Dynasty, during which time Persian and Kuchan performers and teachers were in demand in the capital, Chang'an (which had a large Persian community). Many delicately carved pipas with beautiful inlaid patterns date from this period. Masses of pipa-playing Buddhist semi-deities are depicted in the wall paintings of the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> [wikipedia]</span></span><br />
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