Re: CHAT: Temperature (was: I'm back!)

On Sat, 03 Aug 2002 14:19, J Y S Czhang wrote:
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> >Thanks, nope i generally don't consciously drop sigs... i just
> >periodically don't have time or effort to type up a nice one so i just
> >do one of the short "aru" or "hrmph" ones.  This one i really like though,
> >it's from the textbook i had for Musics of the World class, in the
> >chapter about African music.<unfortunate snip of lengthy detailed reply>
>
>     One of my favourite subjects is music. You familiar with the book
> _Music of the Whole Earth_ by David Reck, copyright 1977, Da Capo edition
> 1997, ISBN 0-306-80749-1? (I strongly recommend this book to any one
> intrigued by music, especially all kinds all over the planet... BIG HINT:
> good resource for conculture music creation.
> What's a culture without some kind or many kinds of music????).
I've managed to get a set of music-related features in my concultures -

Lakhabrech always celebrate with music (of course), with a singer, a flautist
and a couple of drummers.  The singer's always female, but the sex of the
others is dependent on who is talented enough to take part, etc.

Rakhebuitya have their Rite-Singer (female), and I don't know what else they
have.  I think they probably have a wide collection of percussion instruments
and most probably the Jaw-Harp aka Jew's Harp.

The Cities have a more various group, but they are mostly either rebeb/rebek
type fiddles, and heavy lyres.  (One story, which I haven't written as yet,
gives the incident where a musician thumped an aristocrat senseless with his
lyre, and strangled him with its strings, taking off with said aristocrat's
wife and hiding out among Rakhebuitya before fleeing to Lakhabrech, and then
escaping across the Desolate Lands where Yhe Farr hunt with their Ineya
Khara-Ansha ...)

Wesley Parish
>
> >(here's another of my favorite sigs)
> >
> >-Stephen (Steg)
> > "You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment
> >  that you touch perfect speed.  And that isn't flying a thousand
> >  miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light.
> >  Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have
> >  limits.  Perfect speed, my son, is being there."
> >                    ~ _jonathan livingston seagull_ by richard bach
>
>     "No more coffee for you, Stitch!" - from the Disney movie_Lilo and
> Stitch_
>
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> Hanuman Zhang, 3-Toed-Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist  ;)
>
> "the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}
> --------------------------------------------------
>     "There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact
> the poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the
> poet as 'language designer'."  --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.
>
> "La poésie date d' aujour d'hui."   (Poetry dates from today)
> "La poésie est en jeu."             (Poetry is in play)
>                 --- Blaise Cendrars
>
> "...Poetry is perhaps the only insurance we've got against the vulgarity of
> the human heart..." ~ Joseph Brodsky
--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."