Answers to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
1. Lute, but after looking up the Oud I have got to give credit to Maren. Remarkably similar instruments. Important things to recognize a lute include the peg box bent at a 90 degree angle back from the fretboard, and the soundhole being covered by a grill. Real difference between the Lute and the Oud is the Lute has frets and the Oud does not.
2. Dulcimer is correct. Why do you all know this? I thought this one was kinda hard.
3. Banjo! You can do all kinds of things with a Banjo, but all of them involve the Banjo on your knee; not the other way around. Remember that, and all is right with the world.
4. Lyre, guess we all passed art history. I liked the star of David on this one.
5. Gusle. One of the very hard ones. A Slavic double or single string instrument. I thought it was Arab in origin, but I was wrong. Mainly I included it because it looked cool.
6. Sitar. Was it the Rolling Stones or The Beatles who helped popularize this instrument in America? Good arguments for both I think.
7. Ah, the one with the most good guesses. Zither, Hammered Dulcimer, Auto Harp. Technically the picture is of an Auto Harp. It's the buttons that make it so.
8. Gaohu. A member of the huqin family of instruments. It's like a Chinese violin. There are lots of variants. I couldn't help but put this in. There is a guy who plays one at the Rosslyn Metro station like once a week.
9. Akonting. A Banjo precursor of Western Africa.
10. Washtub Bass. I like how whoever bought this one decided to put a bass clef on it. In case with thought it was a Washtub Treble.
4 comments:
Nice mix of easy and hard. I know the dulcimer because my husband came with one. We have a book of dulcimer music, too, but neither of us can tune the thing.
We all know #2 because we're all related and that skews your sample set towards the brainy end.
"my husband came with one"
I like that phrasing. When I get married all I'm going to come with is too many comic books for a grown man, and too many books to fit easily on a book shelf. Oh yeah, and like 6 guitars, forgot about those.
See? Everyone comes with bonuses. (I count the books and guitars.)
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