Sindhi Sarangi is made of a block of wood preferable of Mango or Shisham. The entire body is hollow from inside with two combined parts. Both the side of the lower part are punched and the whole is covered by the goat skin. The upper part serves the purpose of finger board. It has four wooden pegs, Known as Morna in local language of Langas. There are total 26 strings used in the Sindhi Sarangi.

Two main upper strings are made by the goat guts and rests are made by still wire. It is played with a bow, made of a hard round stick of wood to which too hair of tail of a horse are fixed a both the ends and a small wooden triangular but curved bridge is placed at one end to keep the hair tight. The bow is held in the right hand and moved from one end to the other vertically on the main guts to produce sound. The fingers, namely; fore, middle, ring and some times the little finger are also used to produce notes of different pitch at different length of the different guts.

Bin/Pungi
This particular type of wind instrument is played by the snake-charmers of INDIA. In western rajasthan it is played by nomadic caste like Kalbelia, jogi etc. It is made of a curved gourd of abut eighteen inches long with an opening at the narrow end. Two thin, straight and smooth bamboo pieces with usual holes similar to a flute are attached in the centre below the gourd. The open narrow portion of the gourd is blown by the mouth, to produce desired notes. The tune produced from Pungi is simple and stereo type but charming and the same exercise a great power over serpents of all types. It is strange no doubt how the weird sound of a pungi affects poisonous snakes in India. Pungi is confined to the snake charmers in India and it is also made only by those people and none else.

Khamachye
Kamaicha is a bow and string instrument, which is exclusively played by the Manganair community of western rajasthan. The kamaicha is made by mango wood. The lower part of the kamaicha is big hollow round covered by the goat skin. Total 14 to 17 strings used in the kamaicha, but 2 upper most strings made by the guts of goat. It is played with a bow, made of a hard round stick of wood to which too hair of tail of a horse are fixed a both the ends and a small wooden triangular but curved bridge is placed at one end to keep the hair tight. The bow is held in the right hand and moved from one end to the other vertically on the main guts to produce sound.

Kartals
The words ‘Kar’ means hand and ‘Tal’ means Rhythm. Rhythm of Hands. Khartaal is a kind of castanets, made of teak wood, and the artistes hold them in both hands and perform with tremendous ease. A young man’s Kartal play holding it in his hands was a thrill to watch for the way he created complex percussion sounds, while his partner was playing the dholak.

Aloogoza
Aloogoza belongs to the wind type of instruments. It is just like an ordinary flute having finger holes ranging from six to eight. Algoja has the two wooden flute, uneven in length. It is played by blowing straight through the mouth hole. Aloogoza is the most common and popular type of wind instrument used to the accompaniment of the folk singing. In Rajasthan, Algoza made by the local wood Ker and Sisham.

Morchang
Morchang is Jew’s harp is an elastic thin iron strip called the tongue a fixed to a circular iron ring. This strip projects a little beyond the right at one end at the other end is slightly curled. It passes right along the centre of the ring and between the two arms. the instrument is held in the left hand and the fork portion is held in the mouth. The curled end of the tongue is plucked by the forefinger of the right hand. The cavity of the mouth acts as resonator. When played along with the dholak, the combined effect is delightful and pleasing.

Dholak
The dholak is a classical North Indian, Pakistani and Nepalese hand drum. A dholak may have traditional lacing or turnbuckle tuning. The dholak has a simple membrane and a handle on the right-hand side. The left-hand membrane has a special coating on the inner surface. This coating is a mixture of tar, clay and sand (dholak masala) which lowers the pitch and provides a well-defined tone. The wood used for the membrane is usually made of teak wood, also known as “sheesham” wood. The process of hollowing out the drum is the determination of the sound and quality of the dholak. A dholak has 2 heads a small part for the high pitch, and the large part is for the low pitch and it’s pitched depending on size and tuning sounding like a bongo in playing mode.

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Defining a musical instrument: anything that produces sound can be called a musical instrument. The term usually is reserved for instruments that have a particular function in an orchestra. The academic study of musical instruments is known as organology.

Instruments can be identified by the way they are played and the tone they generate. Wind instruments, using power of the lungs, String instruments where strumming is required and electronic instruments that play automatic by touch of keys. Even the human voice can be termed an instrument as the singer generates the voice through the effort of his lungs and vocal cords acting together.

Wind instruments can be either built of wood or brass. A good example of the former could be the flute while trumpet is an excellent example of the latter. These instruments play when the musician blows into a tube. There are holes which one can open and close with the fingers to produce different kinds of sound.

String instruments are completely opposite. They are played by strumming on the cords. A good example would be the guitar. Some well known guitarist’s were the Beatles and Dire straits

Percussion instruments can be played when struck. The sound is determined by the material of which the striking surface is made and the cavity that is left to produce the sound. Drums are excellent examples of such instruments. They are used by rock bands across the world.

We now come to the electronic instruments. This category includes the keyboard and electronic guitar. These instruments often follow other types of instruments. The keyboard for example. It can play virtually any instrument ever discovered. Paddles and other accessories change the sound to match the instrument they are trying to imitate.

Of all the instruments we have talked about, the human voice is the most complicated. Through tightening of muscles, drawing breath in different ways, singers can generate wide ranging voices that affect us in strange ways. In medieval times, minstrels use to sing stories to the common people making them cry and laugh. They use to have immense power over the masses. Even today if you listen to a good singer, you are moved by his or her rich voice and emotions.

Music has always been and will be a part of us. It is straight from our hearts and the purest form of our emotions. The secret to every tradition is held in its music. Classical raaga in the case of India with its charming and emotional touch and haunting melodies from Ireland give us a taste of the mystery that lies in the fogs there.
 

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It’s monsoon season in Portland and instead of building an ark, I’m busy pretending I know how to play piano and slog my way through a tenor passage from Verdi’s Requiem. Oh, and the little swirly rainbow thing wouldn’t let me end the video, so there’s a good few seconds of me being super awkward.

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My rendition of princes fathers song from purple rain. I barley started to teach myself how to play piano about 2 weeks ago, no joke iv never played in my life untill now so yea. Its not done but its getting ther. Learned this all by ear. mayb post full when done an all hopefully. might not be correct but to me sounds ok. im using my little brothers piece of schmidt LK-1261 from radio shack which sucks so tha tone is pretty crappy. I know sum guy on here also plays it very good so ima try an get it up to somethin like that

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Getting my Beethoven on. I can imagine this in the Lord of the Rings or a scary movie. I was bored today, 7/17/11, and played this. I don’t really know how to play piano. I’m mailnly a singer, guitar and saxophone player. I am shocked at this. Maybe I’m just a natural musician. *Shrugs* Well hope you enjoy/enjoyed it. I named this peice epic which is the first word that came up when I played it. Listen to the ending

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I taught myself how to play piano and wrote this! Enjoy

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A slow and easy way to learn the tune of the word wide phenomenon Pirates of the carribien .

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karen is my sixth favorite character from sister princess. she Knows how to play piano, is sweet, gentle, and is your all around good girl lets see what eles i can say. karen like the main heroine of the story althought all the other sisters are also.to me it’s kinda sad she dosen’t get too many fans i don’t why. oh, she was the first sister the to meet wataru. i don’t own a any thing i didn’t made the music or pics

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