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Titania (gone for lunch) Started conversation Sep 9, 2003
OK, so this is a shameless plug for the...
Village de la Vavoom's 2nd Annual Harvest Festival <./>A1143893</.>
...and some stalls are still missing someone to host them...
Yep, I know... some of the people subscribed to my journals (or not) have already contributed - but this is one attempt of many to make this community 'sticky' - and I'd really 
to see more visitors at the festival... *tilts head trying to imitate Ripley in one of his cutest moments*
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J Posted Sep 9, 2003
You already have the Circus! 
I just realized I've only started one thing in my whole time on h2g2. Hmmm. I need to get busy 
Anyway, I'll be sure to visit the festival!
<blacksheep.
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Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Sep 9, 2003
Are you absolutely sure? Is that your final answer?
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Marjin, After a long time of procrastination back lurking Posted Sep 10, 2003
I have been lurking already, and will be back.
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Marjin, After a long time of procrastination back lurking Posted Sep 10, 2003
Seems I made myself an assistent beer bartender
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taliesin Posted Sep 10, 2003
Is there a place where I can plug in my amp? 
Is the stage protected by heavy wire mesh? 
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Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Sep 11, 2003
Hmmmm... maybe something more - eh - 'traditional' when it comes to music? I know we had a piano player outside the beer tent last year - or maybe a brass band would be nice?
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taliesin Posted Sep 11, 2003
Something traditional, yet outlandish.... hmm.
Also, it has to be strings.... (my preference) hmmm...
I'll meditate on it... 
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taliesin Posted Sep 12, 2003
Always wanted to try one of these things!
http://www.eyeneer.com/World/Ea/Instruments/morin.huur.html
Are there any throat singers who'd care to jam?
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Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Sep 12, 2003
Ooooo... sorry, don't know much about throat singing (even though I've listened to a live performance long ago) - but there's another thing that I remember from the performances at the Falun Folk Music Festival - there where these sturdy elderly females singing into each others mouths, using the other person's lungs for resonance... they were from somewhere very far east and north I think...
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taliesin Posted Sep 12, 2003
Possibly Inuit?
Hoomii, called Mongolian throat singing, is typically performed by males, possibly because it is very physically demanding, although there may be cultural reasons.. And it isn't really singing, in the usual sense. More like using the human breathing/voice apparatus as a musical instrument.
An accomplished hoomii 'player' can produce two distinct tones simultaneously, thus harmonizing with him/her(?) self...
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taliesin Posted Sep 12, 2003
According to my archae/anthro-pologist friend, the Inuit also do throat-singing, and engage in contests of some kind. (who will strangle first?) 
Only men are supposed to do throat singing, although I suspect more robust ladies also give it a shot.. 
Anyhow, I'm off to the festival with my shiny new Horsehead Fiddle....
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Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Sep 13, 2003
I remember someone once singing a duet with himself - hmmmm... can't remember the details though - but I was fascinated to hear two different parts, simultaneously!
I've heard a Hungarian do this too, playing a wooden recorder - I was so impressed I even bought one - it's not as difficult as one might think
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Marjin, After a long time of procrastination back lurking Posted Sep 14, 2003
As usual, the throat singers are on h2g2 already.
See A569991 Altai-Hangai - Gone with the Wind
Great CD, I had seen them long before the 'author'.
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taliesin Posted Sep 14, 2003
Apparently Yo Yo Ma once praised the morin huur as 'the most beautiful musical instrument in the world'
To me it sounds something like a cello, only somehow softer.... the throat singing sounds like it shouldn't be possible for a human 
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