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Viscount Suites

by Glimmering

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Tenere 03:49
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Lavenderette 06:52
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Sliver 05:10

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All improvisations, made by Sarah and Tommy 2019 - 2020 mostly at home in Nashville.

Cover artwork by Nic Jenkins 2020.

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released December 4, 2020

Sarah - Harp, Bulbul tarang, Vocals, Music Box, etc.
Tommy - Drums, Synthesizer, Hammered Dulcimer, etc.

Bulbul tarang is a com­mon instru­ment in India. The name bulbul tarang literally trans­lates to "waves of nightin­gales". It is made of a num­ber of strings pas­sing over what resembles a finger board. How­ever, instead of di­rec­tly finger­ing the keys, they are pressed with a series of keys like a piano. Sometimes the keys are si­mi­lar to a piano keyboard, but more often they resemble type­writer keys. The instru­ment is com­mon for folk music­ians and chil­dren be­cause of its very low price.

The origin of the bulbul tarang is inter­est­ing. It is an In­dian version of the Japan­ese taisho koto. The first taisho koto was built by Goro Morita in 1912 in Nogoya Japan. The term taisho refers to the se­cond former Japan­ese emperor; while the term koto refers to it be­ing a stringed instrument. The taisho koto be­came a very pop­ular instru­ment in Japan; by 1929 it is es­ti­ma­ted that over quar­ter of a million units were sold. There is great rea­son to believe that the taisho koto is a technical ex­ten­sion of the var­ious pianolins, pianettes, and hurdy gurdies, that were pop­ular in the 19th cen­tury. (text via chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/bulbul.html )

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