So, today, I went to the tooth pulling consultation to fill out the forms. After filling out the forms, I went into another room and the lady ushered me to the scale. I didn’t really know what my weight had to do with my teeth but I’m sure it was applicable. Anyway, after covering the […]
Archive for May, 2006
A real signature part of the throat singing (at least Sygyt or Khoomei) is the high whistling harmonic that is made with the tongue, jaw and lips. Well, after a bit of experimenting, I got a very quiet whistly sound and I could somewhat change the pitch. I can’t get it quite loud yet. I […]
I think I figured out how to do Khoomei throat singing! Not the whistling kind but the rumbling kind. After listening to a bit of the tape, I decided to try it. I tried, I got it sounding almost just like the CD, unfortunately, about 5 seconds later, my throat got sore and I […]
A friend of mine watched this documentary called Genghis Blues. It’s about this blind blues player going to Tuva and he learned Tuvan Throat Singing. I got it at the library and watched it. It was very good.
Throat singing seems kinda neat and fun but it seems a little intimidating ’cause it seems hard […]
I cut out the tuning pegs today. I have to make ‘em into hexagons to make ‘em all cool. It’d sure be easier to make the circles (the part that goes in the wood where the string goes) with a lathe but, hey, that’s the sissy approach (but more ’cause I don’t have a lathe)