Shovel Guitar
Justin Johnson makes and plays an amazing three string made from a shovel.
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The Nyckelharpa
As soon as I saw a Nyckelharpa I knew I had to post about it. It’s not the only stringed, bowed instrument with keys, the Hurdy-Gurdy for example is quite similar, though that uses a static wheel. The Nyckelharpa uses a more standard bow, though it’s quite small compared to something like a violin. Check…
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Ningen Isu
A couple years ago I set out to learn what “metal” music is like in different cultures, just by typing in a country or people group and the word “metal” in YouTube. Thus I found Ningen Isu. I’ll just get out of the way that the music is GREAT. Listen below. But this first paragraph…
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Mongolian Punk
I really appreciate both music that is culturally specific as well as music that crosses cultures. I recently found this music on Youtube. Most of what I’ve listed to is from one band,Hanggai, but there’s quite a bit of it on Youtube. I’ll let Wikipedia tell you more about the band. Hanggai Band (杭盖乐队) is…
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The Chapman Stick
The Chapman stick was invented in the 1970’s. It’s essentially the neck of a 10 stringed guitar. It’s intended to be hammered, strummed, or stroked with a bow, but it’s most times hammered. I’ve seen many hammer style guitar players, but with the chapman stick there are far more fingers available, so you get many…
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The Hang
Welcome to the inaugural post of Eclectic Jams! Here I’ll periodically be posting links to non-mainstream instruments or performances, as I find them. Our first instrument is one I just learned about this week, it’s called the Hang, though sometimes called a Hang Drum. The name Hang comes from the Bernese German word for hand….
