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Cloe Kim | SF Conservatory of Music | Community Day - Grand Opening Celebration at the New Presidio Visitor Center
One more shot after this and I need to stop fiddling around.
This close-up is the result of focus-stacking about 10 images using Helicon Focus.
My father-in-law purchased this viola in Europe during his last days as an ex-pat in Paris. He left Paris shortly after the German occupation.
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Stella Mandolin produced by the Oscar Schmidt Co. in Jersey City, NJ. Tuning machines have been replaced with Golden Age Restoration Tuners for A-style Mandolin from Stewart-Macdonald. The bridge is just a piece of wood I happened to have lying around.
Clearing out space so I copied prints made in the late 70s and early 80s. These were part of a 'music' project.
The unusual structure in the centre of the photo is a Wave Organ. As the tide comes a set of undersea pipes, which lead to this organ,fill with sea water, which in turn create air pressure that powers the organ. Various mystical notes and sounds are created.
Accordion to a recent survey 90% of people don’t notice when you replace words with the names of musical instruments.
21st July 2016 at Horniman Museum, London SE23.
The Octave Spinet (or Ottavino) is a portable version of the Italian Spinet, widely used in private homes in the 17th and 18th centuries to accompany singing. It was pitched an octave higher than the normal, and was consequently much smaller. Mostly triangular in shape, some are rectangular.
This instrument was made in the 17th century in Italy. The shape is triangular.
Octave Spinets are assigned the number 314.122-6-8 in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel-Sachs ), indicating:
3 = Chordophone. Instruments where the sound is primarily produced by the vibration of a string or strings that are stretched between fixed points.
31 = Simple Chordophones. Instruments which are in essence simply a string or strings and a string bearer
314 = Board Zither. Instrument uses a string bearer that is shaped like a board, or is the ground.
314.1 = Instrument with strings parallel to the string bearer.
314.12 = Instrument has a resonator.
314.122 = Box Zither. Instrument has a resonator made from slats.
314.122-6-8 = Strings are caused to vibrate by plectrum and keyboard.
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Que a semana de vcs seje assim. Pura musica.
Magica. Alegre..
Masy you all have a musical week..
21st July 2016 at Horniman Museum, London SE23.
The Recorder was a popular instrument in Europe from the medieval to the baroque era. There was a revival in the 20th century. Made of wood (and sometimes plastic in modern times) they have a wooden block or fipple which compresses the air, and seven holes. They vary in size from the small Garklein (or Piccolo) to the very large Double Contra Bass.
The Baroque Recorder introduced in the late 17th century was a major redesign of the Renaissance instrument. It was made of three pieces rather than one or two, allowing for more accurate boring. The taper was more pronounced. The possible range was two octaves and later two octaves and a fifth, while the tone is regarded as "sweeter".
This instrument was made in 1740 by Giovanni Maria Anciuti in Milan, Italy. It is a Treble Recorder made of ivory with three sections.
Recorders are assigned the number 421.221.12 in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel-Sachs ), indicating:
4 = Aerophones. Sound is primarily produced by vibrating air. The instrument itself does not vibrate, and there are no vibrating strings or membranes.
42 = Non-Free Aerophones. The vibrating air is contained within the instrument.
421 = Edge-Blown Flutes. A narrow stream of air is directed against an edge.
421.2 = Flutes with a Duct. A narrow duct directs the air-stream against the sharp edge of a lateral orifice.
421.22 = Flutes with an Internal Duct. The duct is inside the tube.
421.221. = Single Flutes with an Internal Duct.
421.221.1 = Open Flutes with an Internal Duct.
421.221.12 = With Fingerholes.
I made a pretty detailed pencil sketch of the German circular cornet (bottom) while I was at the museum. I also shot a photo, and then drew it in ink and watercolor at home. I wondered if I would notice a difference, from having already visually recorded it once. And actually, no, the process felt the same as any other time I've worked from photos. I was glad that I had already worked out how the bends of the tubing worked (didn't take as long to draw). But the decisions needed to render things in watercolor are different than what I executed in pencil. So it was like doing it for the first time again.
To learn more about this instrument, listen to this episode of my podcast: samplesize1.com/episodes/episode-3-the-peoples-instrument
18th June 2013 at the Crown, London E11 (Annie Whitehead gig).
Electric Guitars were introduced in the United States in the 1930s. The vibrations of strings are converted into an electric signal, and directed through an amplifier to a loudspeaker.
The guitar in the photo is a Squier Stratocaster. The Squier company was acquired by Fender in 1965 and the brand revived in 1982 for low cost versions of Fender Guitars. The Fender Stratocaster was first produced in 1954. The contoured shape of the Stratocaster compares to the flat shape of he guitar in the photo is a Fender Stratocaster, which was first produced in 1954. The contoured shape of the Stratocaster compares to the flat shape of Fender's previous solid bodied electric guitar the Telecaster.
Eelctric Guitars are assigned the number 321.322-5 in the Hornbostel Sachs classification of musical instruments indicating:
3 = Chordophone. Instruments where the sound is primarily produced by the vibration of a string or strings that are stretched between fixed points.
32 = Composite Chordophone. Acoustic and electro acoustic instruments which have a resonator as an integral part of the instrument, and solid body electric chordophones.
321 = Lutes. Instruments where the plane of the strings runs parallel with the resonators surface.
321.3 = Handle Lutes. Instruments in which the string bearer is a plain handle.
321.32 = Necked Lutes. Instrument in which the handle is attached to, or carved from, the resonator, like a neck
321.322 = Necked Box Lutes. Instruments in which the resonator is built up from wood.
321.322-5 = Instruments where the strings are vibrated by bare hands and fingers.
LeDuff Musical Instrument Collection
Shells as musical instruments are sometimes referred to as "shell trumpets".
The shells of large marine gastropods are prepared by cutting a hole in the spire of the shell near the apex, and then blowing into the shell as if it were a trumpet, as in blowing horn. Sometimes a mouthpiece is used, but some shell trumpets are blown without one.
Various species of large marine gastropod shells can be turned into "blowing shells", but some of the best-known species are: the sacred chank or shankha Turbinella pyrum, the "Triton's trumpet" Charonia tritonis, and the Queen Conch Strombus gigas. In Tibet it is known as "dung-dkar". The Triton shell, also known as "Triton's trumpet" Charonia tritonis, is used as a trumpet in Melanesian and Polynesian culture, and also in Korea and Japan. In Japan this kind of trumpet is known as the horagai. In Korea it is known as the nagak. In some Polynesian islands it is known as "pu".
Conch shell trumpets were historically used throughout the South Pacific, in countries such as Fiji. In resorts in Fiji they still blow the shell as a performance for the tourists. The Fijians also used the conch shell when the chief died: the chief's body would be brought down a special path and the conch would be played until the chief's body reached the end of the path.
The American jazz trombonist Steve Turre also plays conches, notably with his group Sanctified Shells. Go to: www.steveturre.com/
A partially echoplexed Indian conch was featured prominently as the primary instrument depicting the extraterrestrial environment of the derelict spaceship in Jerry Goldsmith's score for the film Alien. Director Ridley Scott was so impressed by the eerie effect that he requested its use throughout the rest of the score, including the Main Title (music).
Source: wikipedia
Stained glass, ballchain.
Not good pics, found it hard to photograph the black. Still have strings and tuner thingimybobs to add.
This photograph, which comes to you by courtesy of the letter R, is my eighteenth picture for the February Alphabet Fun: 2019 group.
When I went to college to train to teach, I took the junior age range course (7-11 years old). One aspect was music, and we all had to learn to play the recorder. I did not play well and never taught it. I don't remember where the red cloth bag came from.