Cheating with Jogia Sarangi
http://www.alansondheim.org/raspless.mp3 The jogia sarangi is one of the most difficult instruments I've played. Aden Evans gave me his, and I found a dilruba bow which works with it. Unfortunately, it will take me quite a while to begin to make it sound beautiful (if I can at all). It has three main playing strings, but for some reason the bridge is flat, allowing fingering on only the two outer ones. The strings are stopped, not by pressing them down, but, as on the sarangi itself, by pressing the nails or the skin above the nails, against the side of the string. The three playing strings are gut; there are also seven drone strings. I find it incredibly difficult to tune; in any case, I made a recording, and then proceeded to use filtering to somewhat imitate the way the instrument should actually sound. It was interesting to me that after playing it, I went back and played violin and viola; they seemed simple in relation. I ran exuberantly up and down the necks! I sounded good. In any case, here's the jogia sarangi, somewhat modified: beware! _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
