How To Play The Jaw Harp. A Beginners Tutorial.
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Plucking should be much softer than with a bamboo trump. Many instruments may be designed to be plucked in a specific direction, usually inward. Hold the wrist and elbow of the plucking arm in the same plane as the instrument and use the index or middle fingers to softly stroke the trigger inward. More dexterous players may be able to use several fingers in this way to produce multiple, fast plucks.
The windowless lecture hall was chock full of academia, but the blue-skied, cloudless, pine-scented great outdoors was full of unseasonably warm Telemark sunshine. Yes, I must beg the forgiveness of the lecturers whose presentations I missed and admit that I played hooky. On more than one occasion. Its just that I kept getting sidetracked. For instance, I was on my way to a lecture once when I saw, through the hallway window, four people sitting in a circle on the grass jamming. Seriously, what else could I do? I hung a quick left out the next door and joined them.
The iron alloy jaw harp, or Jew's harp” as they are often referred to, was identified after a series of x-ray images were taken on over 1,500 metal artifacts recovered during the project (Photo 1). X-ray is often used by archaeologists to help identify severely corroded pieces recovered during a dig. Prior to the x-ray, the team was unable to decipher the use of this iron object.
Egyptian culture, of course, stretches back millennia. Nowhere are Alexandria's rich traditions more prevalent than at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Library of Alexandria), a testament to the city's past as a center of learning and a repository of history and culture in its own right. Egyptian music, too, has a long past. The harp, flute, ney (a long wind instrument) and oud (a pear-shaped stringed instrument) have all endured over the centuries; strains of each can be heard even in modern music. Egypt is also considered the international center for belly dancing, and no visit here is complete without witnessing this colorful and energetic art form.
In the Altai Mountains the legend of the bear jaw harp is known. It tells the story of a hunter who, while hunting, observes a bear plucking the splint of a larch which was split by a lightning. The wood of the larch was dry, and the corpus of the tree had a good resonance. The hunter enjoyed the sound which was produced by the bear with the split wood. He did not just let the bear live, he even made a mouth harp for himself. Since then mouth harps are made in the Altai.
Nasal and oral cavity are important resonance chambers of the jew's harp. Movements in these cavities directly affect the sound of the harp. The nasal cavity can be closed against the resonace chambers of bronchial tubes and chest by the soft palate (figure 4 in tones and pitches ). It is this "closing" of the nose you may use if you talk and want to sound like you catched cold. The connection between oral cavity and air tube is closed by the tongue when speaking "ng" like in the suffix "-ing": Silently pronouncing "ing ing ing ing" while playing the jew's harp results in an interesting effect that is heard in the first part of sound example 10 (160 KB). The second part illustrates another tongue effect: The middle part of the tongue is put against the upper molar teeth, and the tip touches and leaves the palate - like speaking "ne ne ne".
I play mainly traditional instruments that have been played in our region: torupill (Estonian bagpipes), different types of kannel (stringed instrument, relative to zithers and harps), 6-stringed kannel, folk-kannel, 11- and 12-stringed kannel, South-Estonian kannõl. Also parmupill (mouth-harp), talharpa (Estonian Swedish stringed harp) and different types of flutes, also recorders, mainly because of they are chromatic and can be used with rock music with no problems. Although I prefer natural tuning - for instance, I usually tune my torupill over, when I play solo and for fun.
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Plucking should be much softer than with a bamboo trump. Many instruments may be designed to be plucked in a specific direction, usually inward. Hold the wrist and elbow of the plucking arm in the same plane as the instrument and use the index or middle fingers to softly stroke the trigger inward. More dexterous players may be able to use several fingers in this way to produce multiple, fast plucks.
The windowless lecture hall was chock full of academia, but the blue-skied, cloudless, pine-scented great outdoors was full of unseasonably warm Telemark sunshine. Yes, I must beg the forgiveness of the lecturers whose presentations I missed and admit that I played hooky. On more than one occasion. Its just that I kept getting sidetracked. For instance, I was on my way to a lecture once when I saw, through the hallway window, four people sitting in a circle on the grass jamming. Seriously, what else could I do? I hung a quick left out the next door and joined them.
The iron alloy jaw harp, or Jew's harp” as they are often referred to, was identified after a series of x-ray images were taken on over 1,500 metal artifacts recovered during the project (Photo 1). X-ray is often used by archaeologists to help identify severely corroded pieces recovered during a dig. Prior to the x-ray, the team was unable to decipher the use of this iron object.
Egyptian culture, of course, stretches back millennia. Nowhere are Alexandria's rich traditions more prevalent than at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Library of Alexandria), a testament to the city's past as a center of learning and a repository of history and culture in its own right. Egyptian music, too, has a long past. The harp, flute, ney (a long wind instrument) and oud (a pear-shaped stringed instrument) have all endured over the centuries; strains of each can be heard even in modern music. Egypt is also considered the international center for belly dancing, and no visit here is complete without witnessing this colorful and energetic art form.
In the Altai Mountains the legend of the bear jaw harp is known. It tells the story of a hunter who, while hunting, observes a bear plucking the splint of a larch which was split by a lightning. The wood of the larch was dry, and the corpus of the tree had a good resonance. The hunter enjoyed the sound which was produced by the bear with the split wood. He did not just let the bear live, he even made a mouth harp for himself. Since then mouth harps are made in the Altai.
Nasal and oral cavity are important resonance chambers of the jew's harp. Movements in these cavities directly affect the sound of the harp. The nasal cavity can be closed against the resonace chambers of bronchial tubes and chest by the soft palate (figure 4 in tones and pitches ). It is this "closing" of the nose you may use if you talk and want to sound like you catched cold. The connection between oral cavity and air tube is closed by the tongue when speaking "ng" like in the suffix "-ing": Silently pronouncing "ing ing ing ing" while playing the jew's harp results in an interesting effect that is heard in the first part of sound example 10 (160 KB). The second part illustrates another tongue effect: The middle part of the tongue is put against the upper molar teeth, and the tip touches and leaves the palate - like speaking "ne ne ne".
I play mainly traditional instruments that have been played in our region: torupill (Estonian bagpipes), different types of kannel (stringed instrument, relative to zithers and harps), 6-stringed kannel, folk-kannel, 11- and 12-stringed kannel, South-Estonian kannõl. Also parmupill (mouth-harp), talharpa (Estonian Swedish stringed harp) and different types of flutes, also recorders, mainly because of they are chromatic and can be used with rock music with no problems. Although I prefer natural tuning - for instance, I usually tune my torupill over, when I play solo and for fun.
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