Exotic instruments.

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Beer$ said:
The sad part is that they're being built in numbers enough to attempt to sell them. Either they're sorely mistaken about how supply and demand works or the djent players can't tell when they've officially reached complete self parody.

It's a genre named after an onomatopoeia, named after a technique. In a few years it's going to come to "Yeah dude I play in a krunn metal band drawing influences from squidge and blinnndt".
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I read something where a band asked "Should we start calling Doom Metal 'DUNNN!'?"

People are so desperate to label anything that they will label based on the sound of a note being palm muted under high gain. You would have never heard that in the days of Sabbath or Deep Purple. I could only imagine what someone would have come up with to describe Funk. "Have you heard that new music? I think they call it "Chcka". It comes from the sound of the guitar through some kind of effect. Anyways P-funk is great."
 
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Jocelyn said:
Oh man these things were annoying during the last world cup. Sounded like an army of Bees on TV.

Tried your hands on a Tabla... :), I once knew a drummer who was professional Tablarist before, he took to drums guitar. He rocked. Lost touch with him.
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Haha they weren't that bad live... And they're part of the tradition of the football here. On the tv they were incredibly annoying though....
Yeah I played tabla from the age of 6 to about 9 and then I stopped lessons but carried on playing myself. I also played various other Indian drums and also African drums like the djembe.

Beer$ said:
Cool! One thing I really like about the middle eastern music I've had exposure to is the percussion. Great stuff.
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I also enjoy it. It's quite cool how it differs from western style of percussion. I'm lucky to have the Indian heritage, living in Africa and exposure to western music. Each one has its own unique style and quirks that I try to learn from and incorporate into my style.
For example, I recently watched a really cool YouTube video where a guy makes a telecaster sound like a sitar. Stuff like that is awesome to me seeing as I can't play the actual sitar but want to attain that sound.
 
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Beer$ said:
I managed to find the only Balalaika teacher in Australia, he lives about an hour from me. I just got a call from him and he is the most Russian sounding dude I have ever heard. He has a show at a theater ensemble I'm gonna check out first.

That bazantar sounds amazing. What I wouldn't give to get my hands on one of those.
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Nice, does he play solo or in an ensemble?

Indeed. I think the one Mark Deutsch made for himself is the only one out there (his album 'Fool' is on iTunes). It would be killer in metal :firedevil:.

I also like the various instruments played in Chinese classical music, particularly the erhu. One of the students at my old school played it. In the weekly assemblies, proceedings would kick off with a musical item, on one occasion, this chap played his erhu, and left us all stunned.


And who could forget the 'ud? The guitar's grand-daddy. Joe Tawardos is one of the best players these days.
 
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Johnny the Kid said:
I read something where a band asked "Should we start calling Doom Metal 'DUNNN!'?"

People are so desperate to label anything that they will label based on the sound of a note being palm muted under high gain. You would have never heard that in the days of Sabbath or Deep Purple. I could only imagine what someone would have come up with to describe Funk. "Have you heard that new music? I think they call it "Chcka". It comes from the sound of the guitar through some kind of effect. Anyways P-funk is great."
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All music in 4/4 with drums should be called "doof doof tish tick"
 
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All those instruments are WOW! The Erhu is very vocal like and emotional. I also like the sound of a Koto
 
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These things are called hang drums. I love their sounds.

 
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I work for Hobgoblin Music USA. We sell all sorts of crazy stuff. Well, we stock all sorts of crazy stuff...can't say we sell a whole lot of it here in the states. Hobgoblin UK is pretty big, though. We even have some erhus and balalaikas in stock, not to mention bouzoukis, citterns, Irish whistles, bodhran's, etc...

The other half of our business is Stoney End Harps. I've been a harp builder for over 17 years now.

Here's one of our Japanese customers playing our Esabelle "cross-strung" harp:


Here's another customer with one of our standard "lap" harps:

 
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I'm usually at meetings weekly with a local CD'd harpist named Joan Hall. I need to ask her to get some sheet music to me so we can play.
 
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Nice harps, BrianS. Pleasant surprise with the Tarrega piece, which was written for guitar, of course.
 
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...which was written for guitar, of course.
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I did not know that! I suppose the player choose it to show off the versatility of the cross strung design, which is a fully chromatic harp.
 
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Yes, Francisco Tarrega was one of the important guitar composers in the 19th century, as you may know. He played/wrote music on the new Torres guitar, showing off its capabilities. The piece graces many a classical guitar syllabus.
 
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