A music trail

[wayfaringwordhack]

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:

Watch on YouTube

From there, I found his fun video about an impromtu percussion set from kitchen items:

Watch on YouTube

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

Watch on YouTube

Comments

[asakiyume]

I'd never actually seen a theremin before! I only watched the first part of that video, but I presume if I watch the rest, they'll tell me how it works.

And the lithophone is amazing--finding the stones that ring with the right note must take some time!

[wayfaringwordhack]

Yeah, the theremin vid is long, but she does explain how it works. I would love to experiment with one. :D Talk about a learning curve.

*admits to banging stones together since watching the lithophone videos." Nothi ng interesting yet. :P

[rimturse]

lol... you really fell down the rabbit hole there, although I must give you, you found interesting stuff.

[wayfaringwordhack]

I did! But it was fun. And becuase this keyboard is such crap, I didn't post links to all the cool stuff. :P