@yotta - thanks for posting that. It is amazing what one can do on a one-stringed instrument. I had a daughter who became a wonderful performer on the fiddle, she learnt the simpler violins also and viola and piano, of course, but strings have a way of expressing our soul.
@Parsifal - we are simply so in tune with the sol-fa system, which is probably the best musical system developed so far, the possibilities are endless, that we struggle with the older sounds, which often rely on minor variations of the one key, one note - semi-demi tones are like the colour variations in a single colour.
A lot of Eastern European music is based on those older instruments and much is lost, as it also seems to represent the soul of ancient humanity. it is the 'Urton' of the world we developed from and it still tugs at our heart strings, as we hear it all around us in the sounds birds make, animals even- sometimes even humans, which go up or down in semi-demi tones.
I just listened to Yma Sumac, singing the "Bird Song" in which she imitates birds. I struck her in my youth just once and became infatuated, wondered whether she was really an Inca temple priestess (and she was and was descended from the last Inca ruler Atahualpa) and she became known as the lady who could sing very high and very low and always make a beautiful sound - and I had never forgotten the name, nor her. today I discover that she had a big career, travelled the world, was on the David Letterman show and reached a ripe old age
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