The World on a String
Stringed Instruments through World History--and vice versa
Sunday, March 14, 2010
"This Machine Kills Lemurs," or "a Rosewood by Any Other Name . . . ."
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Last November (2009), the US Fish and Wildlife Service raided the Nashville offices of Gibson Guitars and hauled off computers, guitars and...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Gibson semiotics
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I had the dubious good fortune to take three girls under twelve (my daughters and a friend) to see the "Jonas Brothers 3D Concert Exper...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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兰 草音乐 In an article on the "reform" of traditional Chinese musical instruments (周大风 "民族乐器的改革," > 2001: 3), the musico...
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Thursday, December 25, 2008
How the Guitar Saved Christmas?
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It's the 190th anniversary of the first performance of Silent Night (Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) in Obendorf, Austria, 1818. According ...
Monday, December 15, 2008
Pipa player from the walls of a Qizil cave temple
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In many ways, this image sums up what I am trying to do with this blog (and in the book I'm working on). The pipa is a short-necked bo...
Vibrating strings
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Throughout history, billions of strings have been plucked, bowed or hammered on citarras, pandouras, violins, pipas, biwas, đàn tỳ bàs, ba...
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