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A music trail
15 Jun 2020 08:53 pmI have mentioned in years past that I receive the word a day from wordsmith.org, and today's word was "lithophone" accompanied by some YouTube videos to see and listen to these instruments.
A copy-paste opart of the e-mail:
Video about the lithophones of Gobustan and this one from Vietnam. That in turn led me to thisguy playing on slate:
From there, I found his fun video about an impromtu percussion set from kitchen items:
And from there, I learned of theremins, which I have obviously heard before but had no idea what I was hearing. So cool :
A copy-paste opart of the e-mail:
Lithophone
PRONUNCIATION:
(LITH-uh-fon) 
MEANING:
noun: Any of various musical instruments in which sound is produced by striking pieces of stone.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek litho- (stone) + -phone (sound). Earliest documented use: 1889.
Video about the lithophones of Gobustan and this one from Vietnam. That in turn led me to thisguy playing on slate:
From there, I found his fun video about an impromtu percussion set from kitchen items: