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| This is the second part of an article in EMI December 1998. The author looks at some different species of bamboo and their properties and uses. Then he explains various methods for preserving, curing and working with bamboo. \\ | This is the second part of an article in EMI December 1998. The author looks at some different species of bamboo and their properties and uses. Then he explains various methods for preserving, curing and working with bamboo. \\ | ||
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| - | ====#4 ==== | + | ====#4, JUNE 1999 ==== |
| + | ===Letters and Notes=== | ||
| + | 18 pages; 35 pictures; 5 drawings.\\ | ||
| + | Shane W. Speal: B.B. King’s Mailbox guitar. \\ | ||
| + | Hugh Davies: Experimental instruments in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. \\ | ||
| + | Bob Grawi: Pogo stick bumbass, infrasound, double bridge harps and thanks. \\ | ||
| + | Notes: Report on the San Francisco State University Sinusoidal sound exhibition in March and April 1999. \\ | ||
| + | David Knott, music therapist, creates a program teaching homeless youth to create their own instruments. \\ | ||
| + | Alberto Magnin: Building membrane kalimbas and bamboo idiophone resonators.\\ | ||
| + | James Harbison: A giant rain stick, the Dumpstick, made during residency at San Francisco Recycling and Transfer Station. \\ | ||
| + | Frank Pahl: Automated door bell instruments. \\ | ||
| + | Len Maurer strings his walking stick to create the versatile Musicane. \\ | ||
| + | Michael Bradke’s interactive sound sculptures. \\ | ||
| + | Hans Tschiritsch, | ||
| + | Instruments from Hungarian maker, Viktor Lois. \\ | ||
| + | New instruments and coming CDs from Les Phônes. \\ | ||
| + | A report on Dr. Cecil Adkins’ lecture and performance on 15th-18th century European instrument, the tromba marina. \\ | ||
| + | Richard Johnson’s winslaphones combine various types of mouthpieces and bells to create different timbres. \\ | ||
| + | Bill Reid’s steel sound sculptures. \\ | ||
| + | Peter Hurney describes “the cold water shower reaction device”.\\ | ||
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| + | ===Globular Horns=== | ||
| + | Barry Hall. 4 + pages; 8 pictures; 1 drawing.\\ | ||
| + | The author describes his discovery of a globular horn disguised as an udu, and then his development on the theme with globular drum-horns, globular-tubular horns and globular fiddle-horns. He also untangles some of the mysterious behaviors of these instruments. | ||
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| + | ===Freenotes from Richard Cooke=== | ||
| + | Bart Hopkin. 4 pages; 10 pictures; 1 drawing.\\ | ||
| + | This is a photo journal of Richard Cooke’s percussion bar instruments with some nice pictures of great instruments and layout ideas. Notes on the instruments from Bart Hopkin. | ||
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| + | ===Journey Through Sand and Flame; A Ceramic Musical Instrument Maker=== | ||
| + | Brian Ransom. 4 pages; 12 pictures.\\ | ||
| + | Pictures of beautifully sculpted, ceramic wind, string and percussion instruments illustrate the ideas and developments the author writes of. | ||
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| + | ===The Photosonic Disc=== | ||
| + | Jacques Dudon. 11 pages; 28 pictures; 2 diagrams.\\ | ||
| + | This article documents the author’s extensive work with light as a sound source. He uses rotating transparent discs patterned with opaque ink to alternately block and pass light shining through to a photo electric cell to create different timbres and pitches. He writes of his many methods of creating the discs and filtering and modulating their output.\\ [waveforms; harmonics; tunings; Fibonacci; fractals; barabarie organ; sequencing] | ||
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| + | ===The Cultivated Sculptural=== | ||
| + | [[Ela Lamblin]]. 5 pages; 6 pictures.\\ | ||
| + | The function and design of instruments made from carrots, bull kelp, bicycles and stones blends with choreography and dance in this description of the author’s work. He and his spouse are working together to create a new genre of performance found in the merging of instrument building, music and dance. | ||
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| + | ===Beyond the Shaker; Experimental Instruments and the New Educational Initiatives=== | ||
| + | [[John Bertles]]. 5+ pages; 2 pictures; 4 diagrams.\\ | ||
| + | Out of his work in elementary schools in New York, the author presents ideas for cross-curricular applications of instrument building in the classroom. He opens with some recent history of arts programs in schools, and what is needed to meet current requirements. Then he goes deeper into the connection of instrument building to history, cultural studies, geology, math, science, literacy and environmental studies. \\ | ||
| + | [finger piano; pan pipes; recycled materials; notation systems; acoustics]\\ | ||
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| + | ===No Unifying Idea in the Work of No One in Particular=== | ||
| + | John Berndt. 4+ pages; 7 pictures.\\ | ||
| + | The author runs through a selection of his original instruments ranging from amplified acoustic experiments to feedback and circuit bending. | ||
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| + | ===Circuit-Bending and Living Instruments of a Future=== | ||
| + | Q.R. Ghazala. 9 pages; 16 pictures; 1 drawing.\\ | ||
| + | The author’s final article for ExMI is a guide for the beginning circuit bender wishing to discover worlds of unintended sounds in toys and other simple sound-making circuitry. He covers all the tools, supplies and techniques one needs to embark on this adventure, and includes illustrative examples of his own instruments. \\ | ||
| + | [switches; potentiometers; | ||
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| + | ===Straws in the Wind, or, the Wind in the Willows=== | ||
| + | Robin Goodfellow. 5+ pages; 32 drawings.\\ | ||
| + | To complete her pedagogical series in ExMI, the author presents her pan pipes, slide whistle and oboe made from soda straws. As always, she includes interesting instrumental and cultural lore. | ||
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| + | ===Extra, Extra – Stroh Violins Still Being Made!!!=== | ||
| + | Cary Clements. 4 pages; 11 pictures.\\ | ||
| + | The author reports on his research into the making, design, function and use of two contemporary Stroh spin-offs: the Burmese Stroh violin and the Transylvanian funnel fiddle. | ||
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| + | ===Articles We Shoulda Done=== | ||
| + | Bart Hopkin. 2+ pages.\\ | ||
| + | These last notes from the editor of EMI include some interesting leads for continued research: novelties from the Deagan company, slide saxophone patents, John Keeley, Chinese-Western orchestral instruments, | ||
| ======NOTES====== | ======NOTES====== | ||
| Instances originally written as " | Instances originally written as " | ||
| [[Cornelius Cardew]] is strangely never mentioned in the listings of EMI, but is mentioned in relationship to [[Philip Dadson]]. | [[Cornelius Cardew]] is strangely never mentioned in the listings of EMI, but is mentioned in relationship to [[Philip Dadson]]. | ||
