![]() From 1968 the firm became known as Keio Electronic Laboratories although they used the brand-name Korg (‘Katoh-Osanai organ’) on the products, this became the company's official name only in the mid-1980s. It was founded in Tokyo in 1963 by Tsutomu Katoh and the accordion player Tadashi Osanai as Keio Geijutsu Kenkyujo. Japanese firm of electronic instrument manufacturers. Its repertoire includes material adapted from Javanese. The ensemble is played by youth groups in parades, at community centres, and sometimes in organized competitions in which female dancers and MCs are included. A small suling flute is added along with maracas and Western marching cymbals. The melody is played by a single musician on a diatonic set of angklung rattles and doubled on a gambang xylophone. A single musician plays several small, one-headed drums and cymbals arranged in the manner of Western marching tom-toms. Up to five musicians play beḍug, large homemade drums constructed from plastic barrels and rubber or plastic heads ranging from 30 to 45 cm in diameter and struck with large padded mallets. The bars are struck with a padded wooden mallet. The ensemble, developed since 2000, includes up to 20 kentongan ( tek-tek) consisting of two tuned lengths of bamboo from 50 to 80 cm long cut in the manner of the calung bar, screwed onto a square frame of bamboo, and carried on a rope strung around the player’s shoulders. Processional ensemble of Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia. Several workshop inventories taken for legal purposes refer frankly to counterfeit Ruckers harpsichords. Since the alterations concealed much of the original material and involved replacement of many parts, it was not difficult for those engaged in this trade to satisfy the market without actually starting from an original Ruckers instrument. Instruments of the famous Ruckers family, enlarged and redecorated to satisfy contemporary taste and musical requirements, were in demand in the 18th century, particularly in Paris. Despite continuing efforts to suppress the practice, and improving methods of detection, faking and forgery, especially of valuable instruments sought by collectors as investments, continue to flourish. Partly to discourage misrepresentation, during the Middle Ages European trade guilds began to register makers’ marks and require their use on products bells were perhaps the first instruments to bear such identification. Fakes can thus shed light on those who were deceived as well as on those responsible for deception. A successful faker needs to know what customers want and the extent of their historical knowledge. įaking musical instruments can involve such acts as creating an entirely new deceptive object, rebuilding an instrument with intent to deceive, conflating parts from different sources to form an instrument with a fictitious history, or forging an inscription on an instrument (and producing false documentation) in order to associate it with an advantageous name or period. A related Solomon Islands ensemble without guitars yet employing Westernized tuning, involves multiple sets of panpipes, ‘pantrumpets’, and the rack-mounted bass. The ensemble includes guitars and accompanies harmonized singing. With flexible paddles players vigorously slap in succession one open end of each bamboo in a boogie-woogie rhythmic-melodic pattern that outlines a triad sets alternate according to changes in harmony. A band will include at least three sets each set is commonly tuned (to a guitar) 1–3–5–6–8 (or 1–3–5), usually in a low register, to sound one of the three primary chords in a given key. The primary instrument is derived from the handheld tuned stamping tube, and comprises a set of 7- to 9-cm-diameter bamboos, open at both ends and graduated in lengths of up to 2 metres, arranged in raft form. It was featured in popular music in the Solomon Islands (its place of origin) and parts of Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu for several decades from the 1970s. Membranophones (Stretched Membrane Percussion)īoth a struck aerophone (alternatively, an idiophone) comprising a set of three or five tuned bamboo tubes, and the name for an ensemble including these instruments. ![]() ![]() Music Business, Institutions and Organizations
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