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Re: India



I love the culture and people from India as well.  I have studied with 
Baba 
Hari Dass at Mt Madonna Center in Santa Cruz for over 26 years.  He is 
silent and has not spoken in over 40 years.  He writes on a small chalk 
board.  He is a teacher and a hard worker even at 76 years old.  I am one 
of 
the musicians and actors at the commumity about to bring looping to the 
center using drones,sitar-synth-guitar and more...Om and Out   Papa Dave 
aka...Narendra


>From: Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>Subject: Re: India
>Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:16:51 -0300
>
>Uday said:
>
>>That was really cool ! Well, I am overwhelmed and gratified. Never knew 
>>that
>>India and Indians are loved so much.
>
>Many of us learned from Indian philosphy / spiritual work in some way.
>
>And as a creator of instruments, I find it obvious that India has the
>most developped traditional instruments:
>"Tricks" like the weight on the skin of the Tabla, the passive
>strings in the neck of the sitar or the "distortion" at the bridge of
>the sitar you dont find in such elaborated combination in any other
>culture!
>
>As an improvisor, I also observe especially the indian music.
>
>And probably the strongest book about music and its curing power has
>been written by Sufi Hazrat Inayat Khan - not really an indian, but
>raized there.
>Sufism is not really an indian philosophy but it survived there.
>
>We had several discussions about indian music and instruments here.
>For example in the beginning of April '99 we had "Asian Instruments",
>"Shruti, Drones, Tanpura". "Loopable Instruments"...
>
>
>          ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org
>

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