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Much as I’d love to pick up a lute (though I never would), I think if I were to go for an obscurer (than guitar) string, I’d have to go for the shamisen.
I'm quite impressed with your instrument choice. Judging by your previous affection toward PIE and sanskrit, I was expecting you would go for sitar.Much as I’d love to pick up a lute (though I never would), I think if I were to go for an obscurer (than guitar) string, I’d have to go for the shamisen.
There's other performances knocking about on yamtube.Love this n I keep coming back to it, but I really wish the mic didn’t pick up his breathing. It seems like he could’ve found a way round it...
The sitar is also very beautiful. But what I love about shamisen is the percussiveness of the plectrum. It’s also very raucous, where the sitar is mellow in sound.I'm quite impressed with your instrument choice. Judging by your previous affection toward PIE and sanskrit, I was expecting you would go for sitar.
During my student times I used to play hindu aerophones like bong and हुक़्क़ा (huqqā)![]()
Here’s a very cool & uncharacteristically minor-bluesy chart by Fats Waller which bears a striking resemblance to the theme of Очи черныя, a very popular Russian folk song. Given that ol’ Fats was a personal friend of George Gershwin, & worked with Stravinsky on material he would later perform at Carnegie Hall, it’s probable that the resemblance is not mere chance.