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Dear Virilis,
wow Kantele...with hole or without, I mean this gusli-thinnie or a modern one.
I think they date back to the 13th cent., so says my husband...
Well, I think if you use goat-strings it would be the most authentic, I guess you are using metall-strings at the moment?
But I think a Kantele owns not enough sound-body for resonanz to play goat-strings. Maybe you should try hemp-strings are horsehair-strings.
Do you play with a plektrum? You should maybe try.
The tuning is very good if you wanna play with other musical instruments are just be able to play most pieces, I think changing tuning to often on a string-instrument harms the tuning.
So, open tuning is the most logical. :wink:
Which wood is your Kantele of?
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Beside the plastic-kithara with metall strings and an absolute modern tuning mechanism...
After listening to the mp3s I think of modern Greek Folk Music with Guitar and a nice good singer, which he defenitly is.
The percussion sounds quite synthesizing...
I do not hear any metrical pronounciation, which would be necessary for ancient Greek language. All sylables seem to have the same lenght.
In modern Greek language you have only short sylables, in ancient you have long and short. So no ancient rhythm appears for me hear, altough he seems to sing some words and sylables longer than others.
The tuning is very modern and folky, I think none ancient tonality appeared to me exept dorian.
With the Sappho text I do not hear any Sapphian strophe.
But maybe they slowed it down?
Sounds like a very nice interepretation of ancient Greek textes in modern Greek Folk musical tradition. Nice to listen to and quiet a soft voice and a good guitar/kithara (whatever is played there) player.
Susanna
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Thank you, Susanna, I understood you :wink:
And what do you think of information posted by Hoplite 14gr on 3 Apr. 2006 ("Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin written in Doric Anapestos)?
I mean, it isn`t a joke?
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Niet Sergey!
It is not prikol (joke). The issue has been reserched by my friend G. Iliopoulos in an article he wrote on Epicharmos and doric comedy.
Remove the electronics and the guitars and test the beat wth drams.
It is Doric anapestos!
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If I am not mistaken...I have to check my disk-collection.
But lately there were several CDs from Greece on the market, with also "Roman" and "Bible" and "Mesopotamian" music...the CDs were self-burnt, the Label was just sticked on the CD (no print) and the Cover was one side with no real information...just claiming to be ancient.
And in fact...they were really bad...
I guess this is something different...it looks much better...I mean the cover ;-) )
Do you have it?
Hey, I am still waiting for your adress to send the CD
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Sapcibo Sergey.
The credit goes to my wife Olgq and she thanks you.
Yes me too strarted from Rock ballads and graduate to Neo-Folk in my old age :roll:
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