Re: instruments in Kate's music

[mudws@sunvis1.vislab.olemiss.edu (Warren Steel)]

In <2A69FC47FD7F80E775@cs.umass.EDU> KROVETZ@cs.umass.EDU writes:

>Kate's music has had a number of unusual instruments (at least in part due
>to her brother's influence).  Does anyone know what the following instruments
>are like? 
   May I suggest a reference book like:
       Marcuse, Dictionary of Musical Instruments
       Baines, The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments
       The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments?
   Most of your list should be in these books; one or more of the books
should be in UMass or any other library.

>Celesta (Wuthering Heights)
   metallophone (like xylophone, with metal bars) played by keyboard.    
>Fender Rhodes (Symphony in Blue)         
   electric piano (actually an amplified keyboard metallophone.
>Strumento di Porco (Kashka from Baghdad) 
   a large psaltery (zither), named from its shape (a pig's nose).
>Harmonium  (Hammer Horror)
   a free-reed organ, activated by bellows that *blow*, providing 
   delicate and immediate volume control; as oppoed to the American
   reed organ, activated by suction.
>Koto (All We Ever Look For)
   Japanese long zither of 13 silk strings, descended from the Chinese
   zheng.
>Viol (The Infant Kiss)
   not of the "cello family" but a "viola da gamba," a bowed instrument
   with fretted fingerboard, usually six strings
>Balailaka (Running Up That Hill)  
   Russian long-necked lute with triangular body, three strings
>Valiha (Love and Anger)
   bamboo tube zither from Madagascar (wonderful instrument!)
>Tupan (Deeper Understanding)
   Balkan drum of Turkish origin, played with stick
Don't forget dijeridu (Australian wooden trumpet) in The Dreaming and
elsewhere; and uillean pipes (Irish bellows-blown chamber pipes, 
another eternally cool sound) in The Sensual World and elsewhere.

Warren Steel                      mudws@sunvis1.vislab.olemiss.edu