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RE: OT: old skool listening - indian slide playing



check theses vids out for some Indian slide playing:
http://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/gotuvadyam.html

peace 

g

> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:31:22 +0100
> From: akbutler@tiscali.co.uk
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: OT: old skool listening
>
> mark francombe wrote:
>
> >
> > Does any one know?
>
> I'm always looking out for info about the history
> of what we might call "ethnic musics", but
> I never came across much on this topic.
>
> To be fair though, I tend to think that
> grandfather Butler left Eire in order to escape the music,
> it's a genre I've never been drawn to.
>
> (in other words, no I don't know, just have some related ideas)
>
>
> > Maybe there is an underlying root from English Reels
> > (could be Scottish maybe in origin) that crossed the water with the
> > Irish sea workers
>
> Listening to the Irish jigs and reels I wonder
> if they've been re-constituted from sheet music
> at some time in their development.
>
> Aural traditions around the world tend to have rhythms
> that approach the the strong beat rather than follow it,
> and I reckon a lot of those jigs/reels would sound
> better if played in that way.
>
> Stephen Goodman wrote:
> > Slide guitar is traceable on many accounts to one-stringed
> > African instruments,
>
> I'd guess it would be ultimately traceable to the music bow,
> I'd be interested to hear (or hear about) any African instrument
> that had a slide.
>
> Presumably a Berimbau type instrument would be the missing link.
>
> There's certainly the Asian instruments, the most refined being
> the gotuvadyam vina.
>
>