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A collection of folk instruments used during parades and religious festivals.
Bell
Quartu Sant’Elena 1800
Bronze, iron.
a tale of two cellos, Heinrich and Jenny. More about them: proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2023/08/when-heinrich-met-je...
a tale of two cellos, Heinrich and Jenny. More about them: proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2023/08/when-heinrich-met-je...
Up and out in the rain with Bonny this morning. The weather forecast wasn't good for much of the day. Luckily, at this point in time it was mainly drizzle, which was on and off. A local farmer stopped on his quad bike and asked me if I'd seen any sheep on the lanes, which I hadn't. He's 'lost' 30 of them!
Back home and after breakfast I got on with some domestic chores. As it was raining outside I wasn't getting the call of the wild!
After lunch, Bonny and I went to Elgar's Birthplace museum for the usual coffee on a Saturday afternoon. I passed on the news about Mrs P's mum. We had a few heavy rain showers whilst I was there but managed to grab a shot or two in between them.
A collection of folk instruments used during parades and religious festivals.
Rattle
Gavoi 1993
wood and iron.
an old euphonium, discarded and used as a still life subject (or in this case a photography subject) in my art classroom
5th August (evening) 2023 at Kennaway House (Cellar Bar), Sidmouth
The Accordion is a bellows driven free reed instrument. From the 1820s onwards several different free reed instruments were invented across Europe (the first to use the name Accordion was patented in Vienna in 1829). They evolved into three main types of instrument: Diatonic, Chromatic and Piano Accordions (as well as Concertinas).
The Diatonic Accordion is operated by pressing buttons or keys which allows air to flow across the reeds (these are strips of brass or steel) which vibrate to produce sound. It is bisonoric (the buttons make one note when the bellows are compressed and another when they are expanded).
The Melodeon is the name used In England for the Diatonic Accordion (though the player may well be using an instrument manufactured in continental Europe and known there as an Accordion). A Melodeon has between 1 and 3 rows of button on the right hand side.
This instrument is a Hohner Erika Club Modell II. Hohner introduced Club model accordions in the 1930s based on the products of other German companies. The the Erika (not to be confused with the mucl later Erica) and the Modell II were developments of the original Club Modell. It has a 21 + 4 buttons and is of a similar shape and design to the Vienna or Pokerwork.
Melodeons are assigned the number 412.132 in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments ( http://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.
41 = Free Aerophones. The vibrating air is not contained within the instrument.
412 = Interruptive Free Aerophones. The air-stream is interrupted periodically.
412.1 = Idiophonic Interruptive Aerophones or Reeds. The air-stream is directed against a lamella, setting it in periodic vibration to interrupt the stream intermittently.
412.13 = Free Reed Instruments. Instrument features a reed which vibrates within a closely fitting slot.
412.132 = Sets of Free Reads.