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Saturday, November 10th, 2012 03:21 pm
I'm just free-associating here, right, and I find myself clicking on every version of "MacPherson's Lament" that comes up in the list -- it takes four clicks to end up with a version in Czech and it's not the only one.

It gets the "underrepresented music" tag in spite of "Macpherson's lament" being such a commonly sung piece because, hey, Slavic-Celtic fusion (well, not really, not Slavic influence in the arrangement, just the words are translated)

edit: it's a style of "celtic" music I'm not usually fond of, but the Czech aspect of it made me listen to it closely enough to appreciate it.
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012 08:20 pm
Pyrophone -- an instrument in which flames cause vibrations in glass tubes.

Symphonia-- ah, who knows?

Glassichord -- different from the glass harmonica in that it is played like a spinet and little hammers hit glass rods.

Marimbaphone -- which could be used with a bow.

Lithophone -- yes, a xylophone made of rocks.

Crotales -- little bowed cymbals.

nail violin

Daxophone

friction harp

Ball point pens  now, go surfn the pen tapping