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Vanir is a Danish folk metal band from Roskilde. He started making Jew's harps in a shed of a long-demolished building in 1976. Having created thousands of them he felt they were good enough to be ready to be shown to others. He still uses some of the tools he started with almost 40 years ago and his workshop is still a humble place as it has always been.
Picking out a jawharp can seem overwhelming at first, but it is actually quite simple. There are a few factors involved in your jawharp decision, and the impact they have on the instrument is described below. However, in the end personal preference is the most important factor, so the surest way is to try out a couple different types and see how they feel.
As I said earlier, we, unfortunately, do not have any musical notations from the Viking age, but I have my hopes that this will change one day. The oldest Nordic music notations with lyrics, that has survived through time from Scandinavia, was discovered on the very last page of the Scanian Lawbook (Codex Runicus) (Danish: Skånske lov) from the 14th century.
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It is difficult to place the jew's harp in the system of musical instruments. On the one hand it is classified as plucked idiophone, together with the musical clocks: The plucked part of the instrument sounds itself. On the other hand, the jew's harp belongs to the aerophones, together with the wind instruments and the instruments of the accordion type: In this class of instruments the sound is generated by a vibrating air column (flutes etc.) or by a stream of air stimulated to sound by a reed (harmonica, accordion). The affinity to the accordion instruments becomes clear when jew's harps, hold against the lips and teeth respectively, begin to sound without being plucked, just by breathing in or out. Clemens Voigt of Dan Moi (see links ) told me how this effect works: The reed has to be shifted a little from the level of the frame, and the air flow has to pull it back towards the frame level (figure 1, cross section of a jew's harp).
Yakutian Jews Harps are available from Werner Kumpl in Austria. It is handcrafted from brass and unique in being very simple to play. It creates a rewarding sound full of brilliant overtones. This instrument, which has spreaded to America, India, Africa and Europe, is made from bamboo in India and Far East countries. In Europe and America, the instrument is also called as Jew's harp”, jaws harp” "jaw harp” and mouth harp".
Sensitivity. When plucking the tongue of various harps with the same force, sound volume can be different. Sensitivity determines the ratio between the volume and efforts made to produce it. The higher it is, the easier it is to produce a loud sound. Volume sensitivity can be combined with a sensitivity to the control commands — articulation, breathing. Using a high quality instrument, only a small movement is enough and the sound will distinctly change. But a low quality one requires more effort. As a rule, the higher the sensitivity, the easier and more enjoyable it is to play.
The Ainu race is an indigenous race that lives in the northern part of the Japanese archipelago, particularly in Hokkaido Prefecture, with their unique language and culture. The Ainu people are believed to have maintained the original form of Japan's ancient culture called "Jomon Culture" that flourished between 15,000 B.C. and 3000 B.C. to some extent as opposed to other races in Japan, which were exposed to the influence of foreign cultures such as Chinese and Korean cultures.
The Ainu people use only a handful number of instruments such as Jew's harp and harps that resemble Japanese harp, which itself signify the Ainu culture is extremely old. Their traditional clothes for dancing have unique patterns and their movements are derived from the movements of birds and other animals.
In September we had the pleasure of meeting Neptune Chapotin, a great jaw-harp player, traveller and an altogether nice and interesting personality. Neptune visited Ivancice during his trip through Europe. It was a pleasant afternoon with Neptune giving me a basic lesson in playing the harp. And with time spent just talking about things jaw-harp related.
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on Feb 10, 20