by Prof. Lydia Ayers

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Exploring Music Introduction 10

• by Prof. Lydia Ayers

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Lawn Lyre and Spoon Harp

• Peter Whiteheads instruments
• ordinary objects such as spoons and pots and pans

• Track 8 Peter Whitehead Tunnel of Love

Spoon Harp
Lawn Lyre
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Giant Bass Harp

• Arthur K. Ferris
• Combined harp with violin in varying sizes

Giant Bass Harp
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Great Island Mouthbow

• Colin Offord plays his instrument by plucking,
  bowing or striking with chopsticks
• Track 2 Colin Offord Heavenly Flower (also
  has eagle feather flute)

Great Island Mouthbow
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Santour

• lt222gt Nagme-ye karevan, santour
• 4 strings for each note!
• Note timbre change when she changes from hard to
  rubber-tipped mallets

photo from Classical Music of Iran CD
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Yangqin

• from Western Asia
• introduced into China during the Ming Dynasty.
• strings strung in pairs, thus producing a high
  and tinkling timbre in its top registers, a soft
  and beautiful tone in the middle and a strong
  rich sound in the lower registers.

• Performer hits strings with two bamboo sticks

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Yangqin

• iii9 Planting Song
• Manchurian Folk Song, Xu Ying, arr.

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ltewm617gt Big Noise from Winnetka

• created by bassist Bob Haggart and drummer Ray
  Bauduc in 1938
• excerpt for bass
• playing techniques
• plucked
• slapped
• struck with drumsticks
• whistling

Bob Haggart, bass
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Plucked and Slapped Bass
plucked double bass
slapped double bass
plucked
plucked
slapped
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Bass with Drum Sticks and Whistling
struck with drum sticks
struck with drum sticks
whistling
bass struck with drum sticks
whistling
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Tea Chest Bass

• Grandpa Pencils design using everyday materials
• Lonnie Donegan used to play a tea-chest bass and
  a washboard between sets of his skiffle group
  www.tsimon.com/donegan.htm

Tea Chest Bass http//www.grandpapencil.com/activi
ty/tchest.htm
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More Basses
Washtub Bass http//www.ohek.co.uk/instruments/wtp
ics.htm
Tea Chest Bass http//fer.scdsb.on.ca/mays/musical
20insturments.htm
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Washtub Bass
Washtub Bass http//www.ehhs.cmich.edu/dhavlena/b
ass.htm
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The Story of the Violin
similar to Erhu (China)
Ravanastron
May have belonged to a sovereign of India 5000
B.C.E.
Rebab (Egypt) http//www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/pa
ges/strn_1240.jpg
Rebab / Rabab
The influence of the rebab from Persia, Arabia
and North Africa reaches east to Indonesia and
west to Europe and Africa.
Rebab (Java, Indonesia) http//www.si.umich.edu/CH
ICO/MHN/pages/jumbo-strn
Rebec
Muslim merchants and artists brought the Rebec to
southern Europe in the Middle Ages.
Rebec http//www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/rebe
c.htm
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http//vdgsa.org/img/viol1.jpg
Viol
North African and South Indian music also use the
violin.
Violin
Andrea Amati (1505-1580) first made the violin in
its present shape. Antonio Stradivari (1644-1733)
perfected the violin in Italy in the 17th century.
L. Subramaniam, i4 Raga Kirvani
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Bowed Strings (huqin)

• Erhu
• 2 strings with a snake-skin sound box
• lt316gt Wong On Yuen, erhu, performs Joshua Chan
  Kam Biu's Eternal Love

Wong On Yuen (gaohu)
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Bowed Strings (huqin)

• Gaohu
• 2 strings with a snake-skin sound box higher
  than erhu
• Zhonghu
• lower than erhu
• The shape of the resonatorvaries from circular
  to octagonal.