[88262] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: 'u' Instruments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Wed Sep 15 17:16:33 2010
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:09:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A601F3BEC27E14@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
I remember seeing a video of this group a year or so ago, and they had several instruments that looked like those in the picture, and they were engaging in "musical combat" with them (unfortunately, I don't remember how they used them). But, judging from the clip of the performance last weekend, they don't appear to have used any of those in this opera. (And I don't think the stringed instrument is an oud, now. It may be an Indian lute of some kind with a metal resonator attached.)
-- ter'eS
--- On Wed, 9/15/10, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
> Subject: RE: 'u' Instruments
> To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 3:41 PM
> naHQun:
> >>http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2010/08/klingon-instruments-6601.jpg
> >>A picture of the Klingon musical instruments used
> in 'u'.
> >>
> >> Anyone recognize anything that we have words for?
>
>
> ter'eS:
> >It's hard to tell from that picture what some of those
> things are or
> >how you'd play them. Everything seems to be a
> variant of a drum,
> >however; I don't see any stringed or wind instruments.
> >
> >Despite the photograph you posted, it looks and sounds
> like the
> >instruments are pretty standard: an orchestral drum
> (and chimes?) kit, a
> >flute and some sort of stringed instrument (maybe an
> 'ud).
>
> Well, those three brown log things on the right could be
> {Sor Hap 'In}:
>
> KGT 74-75: The general term for a percussion
> instrument of any kind is {'In} [...] The {'In} itself may
> be made [...] entirely of wood ({Sor Hap 'In}, wood 'In).
> One kind of {Sor Hap 'In} is a tube, open on both ends, with
> a longitudinal slit extending not quite to either end. It is
> hit with a {mupwI'Hom}.
>
> That coiled red tube on the far right could be some kind of
> wind instrument, perhaps played by squeezing what looks like
> a blue rubber bulb on the end.
>
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
>
>
>
