![]() ![]() CHINESE CHECKERS (58A: Board game played on a big hexagram).DUTCH DOOR (49A: Entrance divided in half horizontally).FRENCH FRY (23A: Single item seemingly always found at the bottom of a McDonald's bag).RUSSIAN ROULETTE (17A: Game that has only a single round).By adjusting the speed and length of the string, the player can create different pitch and sounds.īumb – Huge drum from the Braj area in Uttar Pradesh (India).īyzaanchy – Four-stringed spike fiddle with interlocking bow, from Tuva.THEME: ALLITERNATION (37A: Portmanteau coinage describing this puzzle's theme) - two-word alliterative phrases where the first word is a nationality: The sound is created by swinging it around in circles over the head. (Source: Folknett Norway)īullroarer – A specially shaped piece of horn or wood attached to a string. It has a reed made of juniper wood that is similar to a clarinet reed, and has from four to eight finger holes. A variation on the ram’s horn is known as the tongue horn (tungehorn). It is also called the trumpet horn (trompethorn). Later horns were made with two, three, and up to eight finger holes. The ram’s horn was, from its earliest days, a practical tool rather than a musical instrument, used as a means of giving warnings and signals. Barrel drum used in traditional Korean music.īukkehorn – In Norway, the bukkehorn (ram’s horn) is associated with mountain farms and shepherds. Chinese suspended drum, played vertically by one or two drummers, who also dance as they play the drum. Also spelled bodhrán.īuk player, a member of Jeonjeup Nongak, Jeonju Sori Festival 2019 – Photo by Angel Romeroīuk – 1. Pegged drum with antelope skin played with hands or hand and stick (Ghana).īodhran – Irish frame drum made out of goat skin, generally played with a double-ended beater or tipper. ![]() Blur See blul.Blur See blul.īlekete – A large double-skinned bass drum played with a stick like a talking drum (Ghana).īo – A pair of large Chinese cymbals that are struck together. Ghana.īlul – A Kurdish shepherd flute made of ebony. The player holds it under his left arm, and plays a stick with his right hand. The biwa has three strings and four frets.īlekete – A large bass drum with double skin. Made out of wood or iron.īiwa – A Japanese lute with a cranked neck developed from the Chinese pipa, and played with an oversized plectrum called a bachi. Lithuania.īirimbao – A horseshoe shaped Jew’s harp from Galicia (Spain). They are divided by pitch range into three categories: soprano, tenor, and contrabass. Modern birbynės are made out of wood with horn bells and normally have ten tone holes. The birbynė can be made out of diverse materials: wood, bark, horn, straw, goose feather. Young male dancers tie the rattles around the lower legs and compete for the attention of young women.īirbynė – Single or double-reeded instrument with or without a mouthpiece. Also spelled bin-zasara and bin-sazara.īinyege – Seed rattles used by the Bunyoro people of Uganda. By flicking the handles back and forth, the slats strike each other. France.īin-sasara – A strung clapper made of many small slats of wood connected by a spine of string with handles at each end. Source: Polish Cultural Institute New York.īiniou – A Breton instrument that resembles a set of bagpipes with a small seven-holed chanter with a single drone, pitched an octave higher than usual. ![]() In the 1990s, based on only a few centuries-old images and texts, Polish musician and researcher Maria Pomianowska meticulously reconstructed the Biłgoraj suka and was the first modern musician to play and reconstruct this instrument. A long-lost medieval ancestor of the violin, the suka has a crude pegbox and a wide neck, and unlike modern string instruments, is played vertically, using the fingernail technique. China.īilbil – Kosovar Albanian ducted flute with a mouthpiece that is usually cut diagonally and stopped with a plug.īiłgoraj suka – The Biłgoraj suka is a traditional string instrument originating from the town of Biłgoraj in southeastern Poland. China.īianzhong – A set of tuned bronze bells that produce several notes each at different intervals. Your Connection to traditional and contemporary World Music, including folk, roots, global music, ethno and crosscultural fusionsīianqing – Stone chimes in the shape of scythes. ![]()
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