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Anyone know what it's called?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnJ6ppVpsTY

It's a good thing the poster only posted 2 minutes and 59 seconds of
the total 2 hours. Turtle porn is so boring. But you gotta give the
little guy credit for endurance.

Anyway, back to the original link...I'll bet Fritz knows what that
single string instrument is.

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Rick Blechta wrote:

On Sep 10, 2007, at 7:30 AM, Bernie wrote:

Anyway, back to the original link...I'll bet Fritz knows what that
single string instrument is.

It's called a Ðàn Bâ`u and it's Vietnamese. I've heard that Mike Dickson is quite a player of this instrument, although I doubt he'd look as good in a dress as the young lady in the video.
If you want to find out more, go here: http://community.vdict.com/showthread.php?p=126
Rick

Holy Gamelans,Batman ! I didn't know that, or could even find the keys
to type it out. Thanks for the info, Rickster .

Still waiting to hear some exotic Santour on the M-keys .

Have a great day, mates. Cheers, Didger E. Dou

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Rick Blechta <rick@...> wrote:

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>
> On Sep 10, 2007, at 7:30 AM, Bernie wrote:
>
> > Anyway, back to the original link...I'll bet Fritz knows what that
> > single string instrument is.
>
> It's called a Ðàn Bâ`u and it's Vietnamese. I've heard that Mike
> Dickson is quite a player of this instrument, although I doubt he'd
> look as good in a dress as the young lady in the video.
>
> If you want to find out more, go here: http://community.vdict.com/
> showthread.php?p=126
>
> Rick
>

I think we're looking at different instruments. The instrument described
in the link would be called a Guzheng in Chinese. The instrument I'm
referring to is the first instrument shown in the clip. It only has one
string, is picked with the right forefinger and the pitch is changed by
using the left hand to manipulate a short bow attached to the
instrument. It has a bit of a theremin sound with an attack. It's some
sort of Chinese minority instrument (maybe Mongolian?). I showed the
clip to my Chinese girlfriend, but she's never seen one before. It's not
a common Chinese instrument like a pipa or erhu or dizi.

Bernie

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Rick Blechta <rick@...> wrote:
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>
> On Sep 10, 2007, at 10:01 PM, Bernie wrote:
>
> > > It's called a Ðàn Bâ`u and it's Vietnamese. I've heard that Mike
> > > Dickson is quite a player of this instrument, although I doubt he'd
> > > look as good in a dress as the young lady in the video.
> > >
> > > If you want to find out more, go here: http://community.vdict.com/
> > > showthread.php?p=126
> > >
> > > Rick
> > >
> >
> > I think we're looking at different instruments. The instrument
> > described
> > in the link would be called a Guzheng in Chinese. The instrument I'm
> > referring to is the first instrument shown in the clip. It only has
> > one
> > string, is picked with the right forefinger and the pitch is
> > changed by
> > using the left hand to manipulate a short bow attached to the
> > instrument. It has a bit of a theremin sound with an attack. It's some
> > sort of Chinese minority instrument (maybe Mongolian?). I showed the
> > clip to my Chinese girlfriend, but she's never seen one before.
> > It's not
> > a common Chinese instrument like a pipa or erhu or dizi.
> >
> > Bernie
>
> I used to teach music in the Toronto school system and we took in a
> lot of boat people back in the day. The father of one of my students
> played this instrument (he was amazing) and I was told by him that
> the instrument comes from his country. Some other links on the
> internet show it in action, no doubt, but the youtube clip definitely
> shows what I think is a Dan Bau: one-string, plucked and the tuning
> changed by pulling on a bamboo rod.
>

Oh, sorry Rick. I tried the link again and didn't realize it had sent me to the bottom of the page and a description of a Dan Tranh. So Mike D. can play the Dan Bau? What do the mothers of the little girls in his neighborhood think about that?

Bernie