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Thread #8540   Message #56232
Posted By: cleod (in the Philippines)
29-Jan-99 - 01:59 AM
Thread Name: Anyone else playing strange instruments?
Subject: RE: Anyone else playing strange instruments?
Nose flutes has been around forever here, played by the Ifugaos (a tribe of aborigines in the northern part of Luzon).

I've got a Muslim version of the mouth bow -- it's made entirely of wood and has a mellow, twangy sound. I bought it in this shop that specializes in ethnic instruments, mostly drums (made with lizard skin!), rainsticks, some of those shakey eggs, and something that sounds like the sheep-herding tambourine mentioned earlier.

If anyone ever drops by this part of the world, I'll bring you to the shop -- I've heard there's this group that uses those instruments and plays in local nightclubs...

sla/n cleod