Weird group of instruments

[cleger]

I think this is a first for me, a recording where I can't identify what any of the instruments are:


Halliwell, Graham
Recorded Delivery
ZS-CCS4-CD Jazz ($12.00 CD)
Graham Halliwell, saxophone feedback, With: Rhodri Davies, elbow harp;
Steve Roden, resonant lighttones; Mark Wastell, tam-tam. Recorded
between 1999 and 2004. Limited edition 300 copies.

[Chris S]

A tam-tam is a gong. And I suspect that the 'resonant lighttones' might have something to do with an optical-computer interface.

But a tam-tam is a gong, that I'm sure of, at least in classical music.

Chris S

[TMadness1013]

But a tam-tam is a gong, that I'm sure of, at least in classical music.

Chris S

Actually...not quite. A tam-tam is similar to a large gong - but does not have a raised central dome & has no definite pitch.

[cleger]

Well there, I've learned something..

I still am very curious as to what an elbow harp is??!!

[gary]

I still am very curious as to what an elbow harp is??!It's what you get when you spend too much time leaning on a bar drinking crappy Irish beer! :mrgreen:


I don't know if this is what was used on the recording or not, but there is a Burmese court-music instrument called an elbow harp. It is held in the lap and looks a little like a viking ship with a long, curving up and over bow. The strings run sort of parallel to the floor. It doesn't sound anything much like a western harp. It is a plucked, stacatto and somewhat muffled sound. Was that the sound on the recording?