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A popular instrument in [[Hlou]] and [[Ko]] music is the ''Blad'' which is a curled-up long plant leaf (similar to a banana leaf) that when blown, produces a shrill, high pitched sound. Different pitches can be produced by pulling on the ''Blad''. It commonly plays in the soprano register, though modern genetic engineering alows one to make larger leaves for lower-pitched ''Blad''. | A popular instrument in [[Hlou]] and [[Ko]] music is the ''Blad'' which is a curled-up long plant leaf (similar to a banana leaf) that when blown, produces a shrill, high pitched sound. Different pitches can be produced by pulling on the ''Blad''. It commonly plays in the soprano register, though modern genetic engineering alows one to make larger leaves for lower-pitched ''Blad''. | ||
Unfortunately, due to modern Hlou music being somewhat like a mish-mash of Talman harmony-based music and Æ melody-based music, it contains artifacts of both in ensemble works. | |||
Other commonly used instruments are: | Other commonly used instruments are: | ||
* the jaw harp (''Schön Ried'') | * the jaw harp (''Schön Ried'') | ||
* the tromba marina (''Trlöb Schmie'') | ** It usually plays in unison with the ''Trlöb Schmie''. | ||
* the tromba marina (''Trlöb Schmie'') | |||
** It is traditionally (up to the Classical period) the leader (''Ndob die in Ve Rein'', lit. orchestra's first person) of Hlou ''Ve Rein''. It provides the tuning note and guides the players in melody. | |||
* the bowed psaltery (''Trlaub'') | * the bowed psaltery (''Trlaub'') | ||
** It is thought to be influenced by the Clofab ''penicillin'' though this is debated. It plays melodies that the ''Trlöb Schmie'' cannot reach. | |||
* the slide guitar (''Dru'') | * the slide guitar (''Dru'') | ||
** This is slowly becoming obsolete due to its usage in Talma being discouraged by Naeng people. | |||
* the overtone panflute (''Kon Txo-Ka'') | * the overtone panflute (''Kon Txo-Ka'') | ||
** These play melodies in the high register. | |||
* the ''cor omnitonique'' proper (''Fies Txo-Ka'') | * the ''cor omnitonique'' proper (''Fies Txo-Ka'') | ||
* | ** This is a refinement of, the Æ ''vód'' used in Hlou ''Ve Rein''. | ||
* rebecs (''Ntzaun'') and violins (''Ntxäd'') of various sizes | * rebecs (''Ntzaun'') and violins (''Ntxäd'') of various sizes | ||
* and | ** These form the main bulk of the ensemble, like in Western music, and usually play in four-part harmony similar to the one taught in our Europe, with the exception of the tuning being different. | ||
* the piano (''Dxon Nkeg'') | |||
** This is used more like pitched percussion, and is a common instrument to specialize in in Hlou conservatories. However, unlike our piano, the ''Dxon Nkeg'' uses first-class levers instead of a complicated hammer mechanism. | |||
* the guitar (''Lun Schrahn'', from Æ music) | |||
** This is used more in Hlou popular music as it provides a harmonic and rhythmic foundation when other bass instruments, like the contrabass rebec (''Ntzaun man hahn'') are absent. | |||
Inharmonic and unpitched percussion instruments like chimes, timpani, bells, woodblocks, marimbas (especially the diamond marimba, ''Kla Drad''), and rasps are also common. | Inharmonic and unpitched percussion instruments like chimes (''Ngien Trad''), timpani (''Ben''), bells (''Glog''), woodblocks (''Zies Rein''), marimbas (especially the diamond marimba, ''Kla Drad''), and rasps are also common. | ||
Other common instruments are the kantele (''Zeig Pfaß'', from Liai music), the lyre (''Zeib''), and the viola organista (a Windermere invention), tuned to harmonics from 4 to 16. The modern versions of these instruments have many pedals, like a harp, for the various ''Rag''s (sets of fundamentals) used in Hlou music. | Other common (popular) instruments are the kantele (''Zeig Pfaß'', from Liai music), the lyre (''Zeib''), and the viola organista (a Windermere invention), tuned to harmonics from 4 to 16. The modern versions of these instruments have many pedals, like a harp, for the various ''Rag''s (sets of fundamentals) used in Hlou music. | ||
===Tuning=== | ===Tuning=== | ||
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Hlou musicians don't confine themselves to fixed tuning systems, except on fixed pitch instruments, which are typically tuned to JI scales based on the tonic G = 404 Hz. The note a 4/1 below that, 101 Hz, is referred to in Hlou as the ''Gab Mud''. Notes are specified as ratios from the ''Gab Mud''. | Hlou musicians don't confine themselves to fixed tuning systems, except on fixed pitch instruments, which are typically tuned to JI scales based on the tonic G = 404 Hz. The note a 4/1 below that, 101 Hz, is referred to in Hlou as the ''Gab Mud''. Notes are specified as ratios from the ''Gab Mud''. | ||
Melodies in Hlou music are inspired by the contours of speech, and follow the tones of the [[ | Melodies in Hlou music are inspired by the contours of speech, and follow the tones of the [[Schlaub]] language. | ||
Later Hlou music uses tunings that consist of many overtone scales on different fundamentals; often the fundamentals themselves form an overtone or undertone series, in the latter case producing a Partchian "tonality diamond" structure, coincidentally very similar to classical Gweats dynasty courtly music. | Later Hlou music uses tunings that consist of many overtone scales on different fundamentals; often the fundamentals themselves form an overtone or undertone series, in the latter case producing a Partchian "tonality diamond" structure, coincidentally very similar to classical Gweats dynasty courtly music. | ||