2020-06-15

wayfaringwordhack: (Junebug Diggin' Life)
2020-06-15 08:53 pm

A music trail

I 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:

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:


And from there, I learned of theremins, which I have obviously heard before but had no idea what I was hearing. So cool :