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JEWS HARP (Googa or Tromp) - see also MOUTH-BOW: -- Bob CLARK, rec by PK, Powburn, Northumb 1954: RPL 20629 - Angus LAWRIE Oban Argyll 1959 RPL LP 24956 & 24972 - John WRIGHT many examples & demo with explan in French: CHANT DU MONDE LDX 74434 (also on CASS 0038) - Bob CLARK (Northumb): FTX-121 - Willie KEMP Cornkisters (Scots "tromp"): 360 - ELLIOTS Birtley Durham: LEADER LEA 4001 - John KIRKPATRICK: LEADER-3021 1971 accomp "Poverty Knock" - WRIGHTS 3 jews harps & spoons: TOPIC 12 TS 230 - John WRIGHT solo album with songs fiddle & harmonica TOPIC 12-TS-348 1978 - Jock TAMSON'S BAIRNS: TOPIC 12-TS- 424 1982 - Fred WOOD (gypsy) RTR-1199 - Lindsay PORTEOUS: on Radio 2 18/1/89: CASS-15-0696 with Dollina McCLELLAND (v) Patsy SEDDON (harp) Andy HUNTER (N-pipes) & Jim SUTHERLAND (bodhran)/ rec Kinross Folk Festival 1975: SPRINGTHYME SPRC 1003/ CASS-1313 - "Bez" ROBERTS rec by PK, Gloucester 1985: 039 - Johnny HANDLE with Alister ANDERSON (E-concertina) & Colin ROSS (Jews harp) TOPIC TSCD-486 1997 "The Collier's Rant" JEWS HARP - USA -- Mrs ETHERIDGE: 927 - Mike Seeger's choice "Fox Chase" NEW FREEDOM - Obed PICKARD rec Atlanta 1927 (NEW WORLD NW 226)/ CASS-0476 - George Van DUSEN: REX 8191 (78 rpm) with yodelling - Old Time Songs for kids: WARNER-DAVIS WD-101 1986 - Jean RITCHIE (with v/dulc): GREENHAYS GR-90714 [nd] CASS-0801 "Jubilee" - Mike & Peggy SEEGER "American Folksongs for Children" (ROUNDER C-8001 2 parts) 1987 CASS-1225-6 - Madame BOLDUC rec Quebec 1930 (on 78rpm): ELLIPSIS CD-4070 1997 "Celtic Mouth Music" - Africa -- TR-104 A8 & 9 - Europe: - Germany: COLOSSEOM SM 3014 - Elsewhere - Italy & Venezuela: 700 - Sicily: Male solo with mouth harp: 785 #53 - Bali "gengong" & New Guinea "roro native": COLUMBIA SL-210 - Venezuela: COLUMBIA SL-212 "Trompa Guajira" - Mongolia 3 kinds: GLOBAL ARTS FA-1 (cass) - Hungary: ETHNO 1966 - Greenland: Inuit Party: CASS - West Java: OCORA OCR-46 sugar palm wood - Rajasthan: OCR-47 metal "morchang" - Bali: OCR-72 "geng-gang" bamboo - Romania Transylvania 558-596 -Sardinia: with onomatopaeic song 598-595 1981 - Norwegian Group from Bergen at EBU Festival in Denmark introd Cyril Tawney: CASS-0341

JUG -- Jug & pan accomp to Lincs Plough Play with mel & tamb: RPL 19028 --- MEMPHIS JUG BAND 1929 (VICTOR V-38558A) FOLKWAYS FP-253/ FA-2953/ 7"RTR-0307/ NEW FEREEDOM "K C Moan" - The Story of the Blues: CBS 66218 - Southern USA Instrum Styles: NEW WORLD NW-226 - Panama Jug Band (Brit) SAYDISC SAM-16 1972

KAMANCHE - Persian 4-str bowed instr played in manner of a cello wit range similar to Viola - see under FIDDLE

KANTELE - ARGO SPA-212 Love Song with 2k & dance-tune - FINLAND FOLKMUSIC INSTITUTE KILP-1 1975 Elno TULIKARI

KAVAL - end-blown flute - ROMANIA, YUGOSLAVIA & TURKEY - FLUTES

KAZOO -- MEMPHIS JUG BAND FOLKWAYS FP-253/ FA 2953/ 7"RTR-0307

KORA -- Casamence acc himself on kora: La Musique des Griots: rec by T Nikiprowetsky: OCORA 015/ FTX-789 #10 - VIRGIN VX 1006 Konte Family - Globestyle rec: on Radio 2 on 9/9/87: CASS-0403

KOTO - Japanese board zither derived from Chinese "chin" - ZITHER

LAUNEDDA (Triple Pipe): Sardinia: FTX-626/ SAYDISC SDL 426 1998 "Traditional Songs & Dances of Sardinia"- World Instruments: 700 - ALBATROS 8/52 (4 tracks) - RPL LP 24806 rec Cagliari Aug 1958 - OCORA 558-595 Nearly whole of record

LEAF - ELECTRECORD Romania carp fish-scale for "doina"/-FTX-631-632 - HUNGARIAN ETHNO MUSEUM 1966 - MUSEE NATIONAL 1969 (7" EP) France 2 examples - MUZA Poland 1976 lilac leaf - OCORA 558-596 Romania 1981 B6 follows song with same tune

LUTE (plucked): -- Julian BREAM rec 1957: RPL 23338 - FOREST TRACKS FT-6004 cass - LEADER 2094 1976 Jake WALTON lute-gtr 7 - Europe: - Greece: Epic ballad by male about defeat of Turks by Klefts: FTX-785 #55 - Roumania: ELECTRECORD EPD/ DAT-90-631-3 called cobza, solo and as accomp - Hungary: QUALITON tamboura band - Turkey: OCR-56 taubar & ud - Armenia: OCR 67 A3 tar solo/B2 with fid- Elsewhere - Turkish long-necked saz: TOPIC 12-TS-333 - India 700 "Vina Gambodia" - Kazakhstan bardic song: 781 #11 - Azerbaijan: Female solo with lute: 785 #44 - East Africa: Male solo: Watutsi Hunting song: 785 #47 - Bahrein OCORA OCR-42 oud 5 double-string plucked - - India: Dotara ekatara: COLUMBIA SL-215 - Iran: OCR-57 tar & ud - Iraq: OCR- 63 Mumir BASHIR oud (whole record) - Saz: OCR-65 Ashik Feyzullah TCHIMAS rec Paris 1970 - Vietnam: OCR-68 4 types solo - Rajasthan OCR-81 - Bernard BROERE: PHILIPS 10388 12-string cora - World of Islam: TANGENT TGS-132

LUTE (bowed) - Russia: 782 #48 - Africa -- FTX-137 Sylvia MOORE African - Manipur, Methei priestess accomp by pena: 783 #07 - Bengal: male solo with bowed lute, sitar, flute & drum: 783 #16 - bowed lutes with cimbaloms: 783 #32 - Azerbaijan: Female solo with lute: 785 #45-6 - Mongolia: Male solo with bowed lute: 785 #73 - OCORA OCR-20 Niger gouroumi long-neck 3-string - OCR-35 Zaire 3-str plucked & bowed lute with vocal - OCR-70 Gambia kora- 801

LYRE -- C.Africa: Luo bard with 8-string lyre: FTX-783 #11 - OCORA OCR-42 Bahrein tamboura 6-str LH & 3-str RH demonstrated (murmured love poem) - OCR-75 Ethiopia craar (8-str enamel bowl) & bagare (large with deep buzzing)

 
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