FTX-700 - INSTRUMENTAL FAMILIES

Musical Instruments Worldwide

Over 50 field-recordings made in the 1950's, selected by a UNESCO Radio Group and edited by Peter Kennedy, includes a wide variety of folk instruments used for both solo and concerted song & dance: horns, pan-pipes, flutes, harmonica, bagpipes, accordion, hurdy-gurdy, jew's harp, fish-scales, launeddas, shawms, oboes, clarinets, fiddles, cellos, zithers, dulcimers, lutes, guitars, xylophones, drums and other types of percussion.

1. SWEDEN Pastoral bark horns (One made from abedul tree and the other from the hollowed horn of a bull or ox. They are used to call flocks together and to frighten bears & wolves) - 1'04"

2. ROMANIA Solo pan-pipes (12-17 tubes of varying sizes with curved ends) imitative bird-song piece called "The Lark" with string orchestra - 1'43"

3. PAKISTAN "Alghoza (double flute 12 & 16" long) then with drums - 1'52"

4. CZECHSLOVAKIA "Fujara" (giant double flute) made of hazel by shepherds, the longer one resting on the ground, the other joined to it with cherry bark - 2'06"

5. ROMANIA "Tulnic" (giant flute nearly 4' long) made from splitting a fir tree, hollowing out the two halves, then tying them together with willow wands in the shape of a bow, used by girls & women to call chickens & pigs - 0'30"

6. JUGOSLAVIA "Frula" (vertical flute) used for "kolo" dances - 1'00"

7. INDIA "Alghoza" (single musician playing two flutes using four fingers of each hand) - 0'56"

8. CHINA "Khen" (harmonica) made of 16 bamboo tubes joined together by a thicker one into which the player blows - 1'01"

9. LAOS Laotian song with khen - 1'36"

10. ITALY "Zampogna" (shepherd's double bagpipe) one tube has 5 holes, the other 4, used for serenading at Christmas festivities - 1'34"

11. CZECHOSLOVAKIA Two virtuoso "dudi" pipers, Zdenek Blaha & Antonin Konrady, from S.W.Bohemia, each using two oboes, one supplying the drone, the other the melody - 0'59"

12. ENGLAND Northumbrian "small-pipes" (bellows blown bagpipes with closed chanter) with tune called "Shew us the way to Wallington" - 1'06"

13. IRELAND "Uillean" (elbow bellows-blown) bagpiper playing a dance jig - 0'36"

14. POLAND 60-year-old bagpiper from western frontier regions of Wielkoposka & Labusko. The bag is made of goatskin, there is a long drone slung over the shoulder and the short oboe chanter has a carved head, like a goat, with glass eyes - 1'52"

15. JUGOSLAVIA "Mih" (meaning "squaller") double bagpipes from Istra on the Adriatic coast, with drone & melody pipes of different sizes - 1'27"

16. ITALY Jew's harp (2 extracts) from Positano - 1'45"

17. VENEZUELA "Ouijira" Indian jew's harp - 0'37"

18. ROMANIA Blown fish-scale (or leaf or tree bark) are held between the two thumbs and vibrated - 1'44"

19. SARDINIA The "launeddas" consist of three reed-pipes of different lengths, held simultaneously in the mouth, played by one player - 1'38"

20. ALBANIA Male singing group with oboe, bagpipes, & hurdy- gurdy - 1'49"

21. NORTH INDIA "Shahnal" (shawm) with horn & drum - 1'19"

22. SOUTH INDIA 2 "Nagasvaram" (larger than the shahnai) with tabla - 0'38"

23. MEXICO 2 clarinets with drums from San Pedro Mechapa during Holy Week ceremonies - 0'43"

25. TURKEY "Zurna" (shawm) & drum play "Haa Bizelik" - 1'03"

26. AFGHANISTAN "Rabab" (fiddle) with drum at Kabul - 1'24"

27. NORWAY Solo "Hardanger" fiddle (has 4 melody with 4 sympathetic strings underneath) - 1'43"

28. SWEDEN 3 fiddles playing for a waltz - 1'17"

29. FINLAND Solo fiddler with dancers for a polka - 1'04"

30. INDIA Three-string "sarashtra" fiddle - 1'38"

31. PAKISTAN "Saranda" fiddle with drum from N.W.region - 1'33"

32. IRAN "Kemanje" (a one-string square cello with long neck) - 2'07"

33. ALBANIA Fiddle & tambourine for a Wedding Song by male & responding female singers from Kruia - 0'39"

34. CZECHOSLOVAKIA String orchestra directed by Joska Kubik - 0'40"

35. HUNGARY Zither orchestra (they are made from the trunk of a lime tree and played with goose feathers) - 0'41"

36. KOREA "Kayakeum" (12 string zither) solo with drum from Southern region - 2'06"

37. ICELAND "Langspiel" ("long-play" rectangular dulcimer also using a feather) playing Christmas carol - 1'24"

38. GERMANY Zither having 36 or more strings with guitar and used for a polka - 1'55"

39. INDIA "Vina" solo (plucked string lute with neck of bamboo, strings fixed with wax and 2 gourd resonators) - 0'52"

40. ALBANIA Folksinger, Rasaim Charku, with "tchifteli" (small lute with 2 strings) - 1'32"

41. MEXICO "Jaranita" solo for dance of "the little old people" from Santa Fe de Las Lagunas in Michoacan - 0'48"

42. GAMBODIA "Cha pei" (lute) solo - 1'28"

43. ITALY Guitar solo employing harmonics from Calabria - 1'36"

44. ECUADOR Guitar duet - 1'34"

45. SPAIN Guitars, bandurrias, castanets - 1'47"

46. GERMANY "Hummel" (hammered dulcimer) with zither & guitar - 1'03"

47. SLOVAKIA Cimbalum solo playing song-air from S.E.Slovakia - 1'15"

48. MEXICO "Marimba" (xylophone) orchestra including saxophone, trumpet and drum playing a song called "Petrona" from Tchuantepeo in Oaxaca - 1'36"

49. INDONESIA Gamelan (Xylophone & gong) orchestra - 1'02"

50. RHODESIA "Kalimba" (flat board with steel reeds of variable lengths amplified by a gourd resonator & a humming sound produced by the spun egg-cover of the lemba-lemba spider placed over the sound-hole) with singer - 1'10"

51. MEXICO "Yaqui" Roe-deer Indian dance, with rattles on legs and arms, with drums - 1'32"

52. IRAN "Dhumbak" goblet drum solo (made of wood or earthenware, wine-glass shaped drum producing variable notes by squeezing all the skin-tighteners) - 1'58"

53. PERU "Titicaca" Indian drum made from a single skin is used for a dance with flutes, drums & rattles - 1'26"

Recorded & edited by Peter Kennedy & first published on Folktrax cassettes 1981.