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21st May 2015 at Union Chapel, London N1 (Lau gig).
The Sporkatron is an instrument made for Martin Green. It is a Laptop Controller using Spoon and Forks.
The device has the same function as a Keyboard Controller transmitting MIDI data to to a laptop. In the last couple of decades Softsynths or computer programmes on a laptop have largely replaced hardware (dedicated) synthesizers whiich have the custom software built-in. When the musician touches the cutlery the conductivity of the human body makes a connection to trigger samples on the computer.
The Sporkatron is in the top of the photo, above the Electronic Keyboard.
Laptop Controllers / Synthesizers are assigned the number 5 in the Hornbostel Sachs classification of musical instruments indicating:
5 = Electrophones. Sound is generated by electrical means.
Williams College Department of Music. Donated by Telford Taylor, Class of 1928, in memory of his father, John Bellamy Taylor (1875-1963), who had collected the instruments.
The 'baul' singer sits under a tree in 'Kalabhavan'.
He stopped singing as he did not receive any encouragement from the crowd around.
Pl visit :
A street musician singing religious ballads and playing a hand-made hurdy-gurdy in the underground passage leading to Alexandrovsky Garden by Kremlin.
2nd May 2017 in Louisiana Music Factory, New Orleans, USA (Johnny Sketch gig).
The Electric Cello is a relatively rare instrument compared to amplified versions of some other acoustic instruments.
Electric Cellos are assigned the number 321.322-71 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.
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 resonator’s 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.
321.322-7 = Instruments where the strings are vibrated by bowing.
321.322-71 = Instruments where the strings vibrated using a bow.
The other side of the wall of acoustics, it's too big to fit into one picture, as was the electric guitar wall at Roadworthy Guitar & Amp. There's even a dobro in the very far left of the picture, half cut off. I should of gotten a better picture. Now, I definitely have to go back!
The guitars at Smith-Holden Music Co. aremostly Ibanez. They are a household name. Ibanez guitars are played by bands like Stone Sour and Korn, mostly metal bands. But musicains that defy the genre label like Steve Vai and Joe Saturini have signature Ibanez guitars. Ibanez is not a bad endorsemant by any means.
Commencement Mass and Family Reception, May 2022. (Photo/Stew Milne)
Commencement 2022 Mass and Family Reception
23rd April 2018 at the British Museum (room 33), London WC1.
The Dagu ("big drum") is the larger of the Chinese two headed barrel shaped drums, and is played with two sticks.
Dagus are assigned the number 211.222.1 in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel-Sachs ), indicating:
2 = Membranophones. Instruments where the sound is primarily produced by the vibration of a string or strings that are stretched between fixed points.
21 = Struck Membranophones. Sound is produced by hitting the drumskin with a hand or object.
211 = Directly Struck Membranophones. Instruments in which the membrane is struck directly.
211.2 = Tubular Drums. Instruments in which the body is tubular.
211.22 = Barrel Drums. Instruments in which the body is barrel-shaped.
211.221 = Instruments which have only one usable membrane.
211.222.1 = single instruments.
Musical Instrument by Mio-san. Made from a picture. I used a nice blue sky paper found on the Internet. It took me some time to find this, the pyramid gave the most problems but I did find it after a evening session folding :)
batch upload (01/20)
Williams College Department of Music. Donated by Telford Taylor, Class of 1928, in memory of his father, John Bellamy Taylor (1875-1963), who had collected the instruments.
27th July 2019 at The Scoop, London SE1.
The Kamale (or Kamel) Ngoni (or Young Man's Harp) is found in the Wassoulou region of southern Mali. It normally has 8 to 12 strings. The instrument developed from the traditional 6 string Donso Ngoni (or Hunter's Harp), and is not to be confused with the Jeli Ngoni which is a Spike Bowl Lute. The Kamale Ngoni is similar to the Kora in that it has a calabash gourd body, hand posts, notched bridge, and neck. It differs in having fewer strings (the Kora usually as 21) and a smaller calabash (13 to 15 inches in diameter compared to 19 to 21).
Kamale Ngonis are assigned the number 323-5 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.
32 = Composite Chordophone. Acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments which have a resonator as an integral part of the instrument, and solid-body electric chordophones.
323 = Instruments where the plane of the strings lies at right angles to the sound-table; a line joining the lower ends of the strings would be perpendicular to the neck.
323-5 = Strings sounded by bare fingers.
Title: An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (English, 1728-1774)
Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott (English, 1846-1886)
Engraver and printer: Edmund Evans (English, 1826-1905)
Work type: Illustration
Medium: color wood engraving
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons, London
Date: 1879
Page: [p. 2]
Page size: 227 x 202 mm.
Illustration size: 199 x 171 mm.
Subjects: Children’s literature; Poetry; Children; Cats; Musical instruments
Interpretive notes: In this frontispiece to the short paperback book (placed opposite the title page), a woman accompanying herself on a lute or mandolin sings the elegy to an audience consisting of a child, a cat, and her kitten.
Work rights: Work in the public domain
Image file: 2309100
Repository: Collection of Allan T. Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Guitar made in the late 1700s by Lucas. English guitars were more like citterns, and were eventually supplanted by the more familiar Spanish Guitar. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
SMC PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR lens.