Learn How To Play The Jews Harp

The khomus (also known as a 'vargan' and 'mouth harp') is the main musical instrument of the Sakha people. It advocates for greater acknowledgement of the ways in which instruments influence musical practices as well as the musical contributions of instrument makers, and it demonstrates the practical application of materialist scholarship to the study of musical practices.

This collection represents the first complete study of the Jew's harp - its history, use, playing techniques, and manufacture - richly supplemented with biographies of virtuosi of the instrument, a geo-linguistic survey of terms, data on composed music, and a bibliographical and discographical essay with numerous musical examples.

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The influence of the music he heard at that time was to return much later as, shortly after the 1974 recording, Michael gave up the jews-harp due to work and family commitments, though was asked on a few occasions to record for the radio, one being for a BBC Radio play.

This is a musical instrument, a technically idiуfono down, so it can not be classified as percussion, and according to the musicologist Curt Sachs is an instrument that produces sound due to the rigidity and elasticity of the material that is produced without the need strings or stretched membranes, although later scholars such as Frederick Crane and Ole Kai Ledang inclined to return to the previous notion established by Marin Mersenne in the seventeenth century, it ranked as one aerophone since the operation of the instrument is only when air passes through the tongue.