(Vocal/instrumental group, 1989–2002) Hole formed in LA with Eric Erlandson (guitar), Jill Emery (bass) and Caroline Rue (drums). As lead singer, Courtney Love was an arresting presence delivering lyrics whose concerns raged from sleaze to sex. Early singles and debut album Pretty On The Inside (1991) won UK and US followings. By Live Through This (1994) Love’s husband, ...
no key signature shown; F and C are read as sharps. The chanter’s total range is an octave, plus one tone below the keynote made by closing the bottom hole with the little finger. No overblowing to the next octave is possible. The music of the Highland pipe falls into two categories: the solo music called in Gaelic ceòl mór ...
Both instruments were played with the reed against the upper lip. At the back of the clarinet was a ‘speaker key’, operated by the left thumb to open a small hole some way down the instrument. This opening allowed ‘overblowing’ at the 12th rather than at the octave. Despite this, the clarinet continued to be weak in these lower notes ...
The cornett of European Renaissance art music is a longer finger-hole horn made of wood. A precursor to the modern brass horns, it should not be confused with the valved – and much later developed – cornet. Construction and Playing Technique The cornett is a long tube, usually around 60 cm (20 in) in length. It is normally curved ...
does not contain a reed, like a shawm), belongs mostly to the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. It was played by fingering six holes at the front and one thumb hole at the back. The compass was g’’ until the seventeenth century, when the music shows it reached d’’’. Variants of the Cornett There were also two variant cornetts: the ...
Instantly recognizable, the crumhorn (also known as the krummhorn or cromorne) was made out of wood – usually boxwood – that had been bent rather than carved. The bell turned dramatically upwards like a hook, and the narrow cylindrical body flared only slightly, making the instrument lower in pitch than one with a conical bore of the same ...
The crumhorn is a double-reed wind-cap instrument. This means that the two reeds are enclosed in a rigid cap. The player blows through a hole in one end of the cap, which makes the reed vibrate unimpeded, since there is no direct contact with the lips. The crumhorn is a cylindrically bored instrument, normally made of maple with ...
partly based on the brothers’ name and partly because ‘dobro’ means ‘good’ in Slovak. It has the characteristic guitar shape with a large, decorated aluminium disc where the sound hole would normally be. The Dobro was developed in the same period as the electric guitar; the latter’s greater efficiency and lower cost meant it overtook the former in popularity. Nevertheless ...
Djivan Gasparyan – is the Armenian duduk. Made of apricot-wood, the body has nine finger holes on the front, of which seven are fingered, and a thumb hole at the back. Normally a second player provides a continuous drone, using circular breathing. Close kin of the duduk are the Georgian diduku, Turkish mey, Mongolian guan ...
in folk music and in the Chinese classical orchestra. The director of the Chinese opera orchestra plays the bangu, a frame drum with a pigskin head with a small hole in it. The player strikes the edge of the hole with bamboo sticks. The tanggu (20–100 cm/8–40 in diameter and 60–80 cm/24–32 in long) is a double-headed barrel drum with ...
gives an ascending scale. Blowing harder while repeating or modifying the fingering extends that scale to a second and at least partial third octave. Part-covering holes, or leaving a hole open while closing some or all below it, gives intermediate notes producing varying degrees of chromaticism as well as allowing pitch-bending. (Unlike the western orchestral flute, virtually none ...
Fiddles, generically, are bowed lutes. The term ‘fiddle’ denotes a stringed instrument with a neck, bearing strings that are sounded by the use of friction rather than plucking or striking. Playing the Fiddle In almost all fiddles the world over, friction is provided by a bow strung with rosined horsehair. The hair is tensioned by the springiness ...
holes. Its distinguishing feature was that it was not blown into directly like the recorder: the player held it sideways to the mouth (the ‘traverse’ position) and blew across a hole (a technique called ‘cross blowing’). While the basic concept of cross blowing and traverse position remained constant, the flute’s bore was changed to be conical in the third quarter ...
books. Boehm’s Flute Theobald Boehm was a goldsmith, flautist and flute maker. His particular revolution was the use of ring keys, in which a ring surrounding a finger hole also operated a second hole, allowing one finger to cover two or more holes simultaneously. Boehm also developed a clear relationship between the size and diameter of the flute ...
it produces it by its own vibration. Sheng Bunches of such reed-pipes, tuned to chords or a scale, are attached to a single mouthpiece; each tube has a hole that the players keep covered with their fingers unless they wants that particular note to sound. The best-known of these ‘mouth-organs’ is the Chinese sheng, which looks a little ...
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