{"id":1032,"date":"2008-08-01T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2014-03-06T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:55:51","slug":"lamellophones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Lamellophones"},"content":{"rendered":"

I happened upon this bit of organological serendipitude via Make’s blog<\/a>, featuring a Pitch Bending Thumb Piano:
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As an instrument, I think it’s not totally successful, but certainly heuristic for those who think about musical experimentation. Lately I’ve been deeply immersed in a wide spectrum of African musics, and the clip sent me off on a search for some interesting variants of approach to “thumb piano” (so many other names… sanza, mbira, kalimba…). Here are some of the results:<\/p>\n

Mbira at the Lake<\/a><\/p>\n

Kariga Mombe Improv Lesson<\/a><\/p>\n

Konono No 1 Congotronics<\/a><\/p>\n

Jazz improvisation on a 5 octave Array mbira<\/a><\/p>\n

Close up of the Array Mbira<\/a><\/p>\n

Garland – Suite for Bass Sanza<\/a><\/p>\n

Don MacLane’s musical instruments<\/a><\/p>\n

Ken Kolodner Plays the Dulcimer-Mbira in West Virginia<\/a> (and more via his Web site<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I happened upon this bit of organological serendipitude via Make’s blog, featuring a Pitch Bending Thumb Piano: As an instrument, I think it’s not totally successful, but certainly heuristic for those who think about musical experimentation. Lately I’ve been deeply immersed in a wide spectrum of African musics, and the clip sent me off on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}