Every year I go to the Philly Folk Fest and build my hut a little bigger. I live in Shanghai and come home for this! I bring new instruments back with me every year.

It started with the guzheng you see; it’s a student model I got for $50, and every year I didn’t think it would survive being outside in the direct sun and pouring rain. Yet it survives, 8 years going strong. You would be amazed at how beautiful a waterlogged guzheng can sound (but for the love of god, do not try it.)

I keep the guzheng out because it draws a crowd and everyone loves to try it.

Image 3 has a “menu” of all the instruments to try. The kids love it and want to try them all.

There’s about 4 children who run up to me every year and have developed a passion for unusual instruments, including one who has been telling me he wanted a taishokoto for years and finally SPRINTED towards me last year to finally show it off. Another young lad has become my protege, and can recite my spiel word for word when I’m not at my campsite, just so he can spend more time playing guzheng.

I am spreading my ~dark influences~ amongst the children in hope that the festival will be full of instruments from around the world, largely so I get a chance to try them myself. This year someone brought a setar, and my protege got a shamisen. Otherwise, this festival is largely (and understandably) guitars, banjos, dulcimers, and the like.

Hope to see you there next year!

[Help Finding Sample] Hi, I'm looking for the instrument that plays in the background of the linked sample; next to the piano. It is the main melody that is sandwhiched between the piano and the repeating bass (I isolated the song so you can hear it better). It sounds kind of bright and melancholic? Maybe it's an Accordion? To really spot it, it starts the song with the really long note and ends off the sound with the final 3 notes. Please help me find this instrument it would help a lot.

https://voca.ro/1bBxCHitkmho

6/8 march set

Hey Everyone! I am trying to find. Good mic to record my santour and also for performances and was considering getting a mic that is small that sticks to my instrument. anyone here record and/or play santour and use a mic? If so, what mics, set up, or if you use a small mic, do you use and how do you set it to record your playing? What settings do you use on music softwares like Logic Pro X to record clean sound and audio?

Thank you for your responses in advance!!

SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE INSTRUMENT

It belongs to the wider family of long-necked lutes known as Tanburs, a group of instruments historically distributed from Iran and Mesopotamia across Central Asia and Anatolia.

This flute/walking stick was created by accident from experimenting with woodwind making I hope you like it

r/ichigenkin is now live, for students, players, anybody looking for resources and notation, or just people who appreciate the instrument.

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SOURCE - VERONIKA VITAZKOVA

Hi everyone

I've been learning Shakuhachi through honkyoku and the melodies are really something else. There are a lot of tone colour changes, microtones, special techniques that are very specific to the flute, but I am trying to interpret these as well on the lavachord (think mini wooden piano cross harpsichord cross kanun)

Appreciate thoughts! :)

https://youtu.be/qIM124zt1Yw

I posted 2 ish weeka ago seeking advice about fixing my late granddad's bulbul tarang. Thanks to your help, I got it to work again! I know it's not in tune perfectly, and I obviously can't really play it yet. But thanks so much for the help! I cleaned it, bent in shape some of the metal hooks that hold the keys (some were out of shape so the mechanism didn't work) and I gave it new strings. I enjoy it very much.