Have you ever heard of the qayroq? It's a simple #percussion#instrument from Uzbekistan consisting of a metal piece and a stone; often a set per hand, and the rhythms can get really complex.
This is Abbos Kosimov, possibly one of the most talented Uzbek percussionists, with a demonstration qayroq solo. When I met him, he let me try them and taught me how to move my hands. It was really tricky. #Music#Ethnomusicology#WorldMusic#rhythm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eurZ34Wxeqg
"He showed me how to strum and set me free to play. Three strings—past, present, and future—unified in one connective strum. I inhaled deeply to keep from crying. Yes, this is beautiful."
Oboe production. Quality musical instruments aren't cheap. Professional wind instruments are expensive, but nothing compared to professional (and historical) stringed instruments. Pipe organs, of course, are a separate entity, since they usually including an entire building. 😮
It seems this weekend my music making endeavours revolve around this #Instrument. This is my custom "modern" Jeli ngoni (also n'goni, koni, xalam, etc.), which differs a little from the traditional one in that it has a larger bowl-shaped body, wooden bridge, neck-through design, geared tuners and CNC'ed neck, compared to the traditional long-oval-shaped body, spike-lute (i.e. partial-through-neck) design, calabash bridge, leather ring tuners and dowel neck. #Ethnomusicology#Musodon
@ekknappenberger BTW, Ibn Batuta wrote about the jeli ngoni around 1352, well before any Portuguese explorers reached West Africa, let alone Ukrainian kobzari (who were usually blind, and sadly got executed by the Soviets in 1935, and the instrument was changed to play classical music) having a ballad battle with Portuguese troubadours or something. But hey, perhaps there was some time travelling quantum stuff going on that nobody specialised in this subject can fathom.
I find it frustrating that many articles state drums are the oldest #Instrument; often based on primates beating trees with sticks; a natural idiophone used for signalling, not a drum. AFAIK the oldest drum comes from China (5500BC).
Any skin, a finite resource until domestication of livestock (9000BC), would likely have be used for shelter and clothing. The flutes and rattles we know of are made from materials with less
essential utility; bone, horn, teeth, shells. #Ethnomusicology#Prehistory
@ekknappenberger In the left corner, Ek championing the shofar.
And… in the other corner Cassana championing the mammoth ivory flute from the Geissenklösterle cave.
The Shofar shows up somewhere around 1800BC, before that its existence is murky. The mammoth ivory flute from Geissenklösterle is the technologically most advanced Aurignacian flute from 43,000 years ago.
Knock out!
Sorry Ek. 🙂
Also, various reed flutes are also older than the Shofar, and still played today too.
Check out this super-cool instrument called a “DataBass.” Scott Mulvahill, the musician playing it in this video, is the person who invented it. It’s an upright bass with sample triggers affixed to the body. And it sounds absolutely delightful.