"World" Instruments.

[<3<3<3]

What is your favorite sounding "world" instrument.

I really like the hangdrum.

I wish I could find it somewhere, but I have no idea how to get it.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLl2eBGZlF0

[MisurCanavi]

Cajon.

[pearlsjam482]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangqin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUquZEuH14

Pretty cool, if you ask me.

[~kc~]

What is your favorite sounding "world" instrument.

I really like the hangdrum.

I wish I could find it somewhere, but I have no idea how to get it.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLl2eBGZlF0

My teacher plays 1 of them, he wrote a book on how to play it, such an amazing instrument, i had a go on it.

[EADG]

What is your favorite sounding "world" instrument.

I really like the hangdrum.

I wish I could find it somewhere, but I have no idea how to get it.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLl2eBGZlF0

That is quite possibly the best drum I have ever seen


So how do you get the pitches? Just depends on where you hit it?

[EADG]

Oh in response to the thread, I really like the sitar

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

tabla or santur or something

[FockerTheLopper]

Anything middle eastern, bouzouki, oud, laoud, G clarinet, darbuka.

[Amit]

indian instruments kick everything else in the ***

tabla
santoor
bansuri flute
sarod
sarangi
sitar (ravi shankar is hugely overrated though)

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

yeh flutes too

[Aria.]

nnone of them thair all gimmmmicks

[FockerTheLopper]

indian instruments kick everything else in the ***

tabla
santoor
bansuri flute
sarod
sarangi
sitar (ravi shankar is hugely overrated though)

Yeah, I love that flute, in that video that was posted in the drum forum a while back it sounded really nice. Check out some greek turkish and gypsie music if you like that stuff(and not only for the wicked tabla rhythms) theres alot of nice melodies and grooves in middle eastern music

[mutant!]

tabla
cajon
koto
berimbau
those crazy Tibetan bell things
and whatever that funky string instrument is that the black dude plays in the MTV advert. You know the one, where the old lady puts on some classical music, and the Asian dude puts a beat to it, and the Goth chick plays bass, and a white guy plays piano over it, and a dwarf guy plays djembe, and the black dude plays some wicked fretless string thing with a gourd soundbox.

[mutant!]

Also oud. My dad has a wicked CD by a guy called Anouar Brahem, who plays free-time jazzy stuff on a piano, with a guitar and an oud.

[EADG]

indian instruments kick everything else in the ***



Why?

Indian music is ok but the timbre of the instruments bugs me sometimes



I have recently developed a new love for the pan (steel drum). It's like a banjo, you just cannot play a sad song on it

[Amit]

due to the region's social history and traditions it's probably the most advanced and sophisticated classical musics outside of the west

duh

[FockerTheLopper]

due to the region's social history and traditions it's probably the most advanced and sophisticated classical musics outside of the west

duh

Def, especially rhythmically. Do you know if it uses quater tones like the arabs? There is some far out stuff from that. Hitzaz and what we know is mostly fake(unless you're playing on an instrument that was mad for the quater tones)

[Amit]

there are microtones yes but that really isn't a prominent part of ICM

[EADG]

due to the region's social history and traditions it's probably the most advanced and sophisticated classical musics outside of the west

duh


I thought we were talking about the instruments, not the music


Also why does it matter how advanced it is?

[FockerTheLopper]

I thought we were talking about the instruments, not the music


Also why does it matter how advanced it is?

Well, generally speaking the harder music to play is also more more interesting/better to listen to because its not so common or generic but I like simple music better than complex music as long as it grooves

[Amit]

I thought we were talking about the instruments, not the music

the musics influence the instruments

Also why does it matter how advanced it is?

because a tabla is way more interesting than a triangle :-\

[EADG]

Well, generally speaking the harder music to play is also more more interesting/better to listen to because its not so common or generic but I like simple music better than complex music as long as it grooves


I like what I like, no matter how complicated/simple it is. I just don't think that listening to something purely because it's complicated makes any sense. I just listen to what I like

[Amit]

umm i didn't say that i listen to something purely because it's complicated gg bass player

[EADG]

umm i didn't say that i listen to something purely because it's complicated gg bass player


I didn't say you did

[Number Hello]

I didn't say you did
i didnt so you said that you said i did

[EADG]

i didnt so you said that you said i did


Umm


what?

[Number Hello]

hey get man get off my back

[AA-12]

Chanter/Bagpipe

[MattyBlade]

I much like the chapman stick.

[Number Hello]

Guys, he's off my back, no worries.

[mutant!]

How is a Chapman Stick a world instrument?

[Number Hello]

It's made on the world.

I think.

[MattyBlade]

How is a Chapman Stick a world instrument?

How is it NOT a world instrument?

[mutant!]

It's not used in the aboriginal folk music of any country, whereas nearly all the instruments mentioned thus far are.

[MattyBlade]

It's not used in the aboriginal folk music of any country, whereas nearly all the instruments mentioned thus far are.

they never said Traditional world instruments, all that was stated was "world instruments"

chapman stick is my favourite i like it's style.

don't argue w/ me pls ^_^

[superjoe]

hurdy gurdy

[FockerTheLopper]

the musics influence the instruments




Actually I'll have to disagree. If all the reigons in the world had the same instruments to use all the music would sound very similar in alot of ways.

[mutant!]

Actually I'll have to disagree. If all the reigons in the world had the same instruments to use all the music would sound very similar in alot of ways.
Whether or not you're right, Amit definitely is. Consider the microtonal maqam (scales) of Arabic music. I believe Arabic musicians would not develop an instrument such as the guitar as it is incapable of playing their music.

Secondly, consider music such as capoeira. All the instruments involved in capoeira are unpitched percussion instruments, and voice. Even though Brazilian musicians definitely obtained access to the guitar via the Portuguese colonists, in the same way as the Cubans did (albeit long after capoeira came into existence), they never used it in the genre because there was no call for it. Subsequently, capoeira music may be observed to bear scant resemblance even to other Iberian-influenced African-American musics.

[mutant!]

I just owned this thread with that last post, didn't I. Yay for academia.

[Amit]

bwned

[Sammy_L_D]

Lol Thread

[<3<3<3]

Hey I made this thread

[Surtr]

Hey no lies, the Hang is something else.

I'd kill to have one. :(

[Grohlthegreat]

Djembe drum.