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Re: (TV) Hello, is this thing on...?
Re. 'tar' must be some Indo-European cognate or root for stringed instrument
- just speculatin' . So glad to see some activity - guess I'm hooked on
this list. Is there no rehab for the Television list? I can see y'all are
speechless about Astro-Zombies, what a ya think of !3th Floor Elevators,
Mathew Sweet with RL? or this old chestnut:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iw80nob1MvQ
You can see some pretty closeup fancy fret work from TV on this one.
Discuss!
On 6/1/07, Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Dunno if Tom ever played banjo, but the instrument here is a sarod--it is
> indeed banjo-like, with a stretched skin over a resonating cavity, but it's
> also sitar-like in that it has sympathetic strings. Unlike the sitar or the
> tanpura, the sarod has no buzz bridge, though you can hear the drone of the
> tanpura and see the tanpura neck in the background of the video.
>
> I've been listening to a lot of Indian, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian
> music of late, mainly stringed instruments, which all seem to have common
> ancestry. (Their names suggest this: guitar, sitar, tar, etc. Maybe I just
> find this interesting because my soon-to-be-two-year-old son is now asking
> to play "'tar!")
>
> On Friday, June 01, 2007, at 07:15AM, "Russ" <russvr@gmail.com> wrote:
> >That's way cool, Maurice. I'm pretty unfamiliar with Indian music - I'd
> love
> >to have whatever that instrument is - a sitar ? It has a strangely
> >banjo-like quality. I wonder if Tom Verlaine has ever played banjo? If so
> it
> >probably sounds similar to this.
> >
> >On 6/1/07, Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com> wrote:
>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__JRNoti5u0
>
> Maurice Rickard
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