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Thread #125670   Message #2787377
Posted By: GUEST,DonMeixner
13-Dec-09 - 09:57 AM
Thread Name: Unusual autoharp technique
Subject: RE: Unusual autoharp technique
This could be a new thread actually.

How long does a song or musical style have to begone to make it's reemergence a revival? I'd argue that from a culture that relies on example and not written document to carry on a tradition then gone is gone after a few generations. You can't revive what you've never heard.
Bending a new instrument to your use and playing the old music you know on isn't revivalism is it?

Is it revival to play a formerly un accompanied song with guitar or is it revision?

Don