[Harp-L] Was 'Enough Please'/Free reed history

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm wondering about the Uilleann pipes - the Irish or celtic term, I believe, for a bellows-driven reed instrument, the like of which can be found in many parts of the world, particularly Eastern Europe. These instruments must fall in the 'free reed' catagory, as the reed is not held in the mouth. I rather doubt that these instruments are related to the 'Asian mouth-organ' ie Khaen, Sheng, Sho, etc.etc.
Anybody with further knowlwdge, corretions or thoughts on this?
RD

>>> Vince Meghrouni <Foomcorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 29/05/2007 12:57:52 >>>
And harps rely on free reeds, the existence of free reed instruments  
in asia pre-date and presage free reed instruments in Europe.

Reginald "Rex" "Rich" Tobago
Manufacturer of Memes untethered to reality

On May 28, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Frank Evers wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 27. Mai 2007 21:54 schrieb Jeff roulier:
>> This is a harp mailing list, not Buddha's.  I mean no offense to
>> those who follow eastern philosophy.  I myself like some of it.  I
>> just think it doesn't belong here.
>
> Don´t forget it was african culture, that brought the essential
> ingedience for what we call blues, jazz and whatever came from it.
> This is a harmonica mailing list, yes. So european craftsmen build an
> instrument to play traditional  "german major" (scnr ;) ) folk music.
> That instrument was brought to african american slave descendants who
> used it in a completely different way, and this new music floated
> back to europe and all over the world.
>
> Remembering this, yet another cultural ingredience will probably be
> quite interesting.
> -- 
> Gruß,Frank




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