Very very cool, Deep. What a fortunate thing for you! So I suppose you will be keeping us all up to date on your visits with Snehasish? Please? Ha! Please inform him that he has touched a few hearts here in Nashville, TN. Find out what kind of oil he uses on his fingers...is it coconut, I wonder? Thanks for being such a wealth of information and a nice guy to boot.
Tater On Oct 6, 1:51 pm, "diptanshu roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi taterin baul folk there is this instrument called khamok which is the > main sound of baul music. i have tried to imitate that on the mando. i will > send u a sample of how the real instrument sounds like. > a lil description of the instrument > > Khamok, a tension drum variously called as gubgubi or Anandalahari. It is a > wooden cylindrical drum with a skin tied across one end. A string pierced in > the middle of the skin passes out through the wooden drum to attach to a > small brass resonator held as a handle that is freely held when the string > is plucked with a wooden plectrum. It is played by placing the drum under > the arm and plucking the string while raising or lowering the brass handle, > thereby applying tension to the string and the drum head. Surprisingly by > varying the tension on the string, it produces a whole gamut of vocal-like > sounds like gubgub..gubgub and hence owes its onomatopoeic name Gubgubi. It > is the most coveted instrument iconic of the Bauls and gives both melody and > rhythm. > > i know snehashis by name. he doesnt play folk music. he plays north indian > classical. his slide immitates the sitar and the sarod. few days back i > discovered that he lives in kolkata! so i am planning to learn the basics of > indian classical from him. but he is hardly got time to teach as of now. as > he is always touring. > > AnandoBaul2.mp3 > 1424KViewDownload > > khmkd_thumb.jpg > 4KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
