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check theses vids out for some Indian slide playing: http://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/gotuvadyam.html peace g > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:31:22 +0100 > From: akbutler@tiscali.co.uk > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: Re: OT: old skool listening > > mark francombe wrote: > > > > > Does any one know? > > I'm always looking out for info about the history > of what we might call "ethnic musics", but > I never came across much on this topic. > > To be fair though, I tend to think that > grandfather Butler left Eire in order to escape the music, > it's a genre I've never been drawn to. > > (in other words, no I don't know, just have some related ideas) > > > > Maybe there is an underlying root from English Reels > > (could be Scottish maybe in origin) that crossed the water with the > > Irish sea workers > > Listening to the Irish jigs and reels I wonder > if they've been re-constituted from sheet music > at some time in their development. > > Aural traditions around the world tend to have rhythms > that approach the the strong beat rather than follow it, > and I reckon a lot of those jigs/reels would sound > better if played in that way. > > Stephen Goodman wrote: > > Slide guitar is traceable on many accounts to one-stringed > > African instruments, > > I'd guess it would be ultimately traceable to the music bow, > I'd be interested to hear (or hear about) any African instrument > that had a slide. > > Presumably a Berimbau type instrument would be the missing link. > > There's certainly the Asian instruments, the most refined being > the gotuvadyam vina. > > |