Dingo40
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"Elagu eesti!"
Another example!
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"Elagu eesti!"
Another example!
Chickers
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DINGO
Pretty cool. Very catchy tunes.
Thank you for sharing.
Can you explain the type of music, and the specific name of the instrument ?
CHICKERS
Pretty cool. Very catchy tunes.
Thank you for sharing.
Can you explain the type of music, and the specific name of the instrument ?
CHICKERS
Dingo40
Been here for ages!
AFAIK, this is Estonian popular/folk music. Many of the actual tunes are also found
(under different names, and with different words) in other, nearby Baltic Sea bordering countries, eg Latvia.
The instrument itself is a locally built Estonian popular "folk" harmonica, loosely based on the St Petersburg Armonica, originally built in St Petersburg ( Russia) in the late 1800s/ early 1900s and in widespread use at that time throughout the region (including Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland) and almost de riguer at weddings, funerals, christenings, birthdays and other gatherings.
There's a fairly recent thread on this on the forum)
There's several skilled players and the instrument is quite a centrepiece in some of the Estonian folk music festivals, notably in Lรตรตtspill, Estonia.
There's this:
This video appears to be of a
Latvian/ Estonian collaboration in building such an instrument in Latvia.
The maker's name is "Ieviลa".
And this:
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Dingo40
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This seems to be a sales pitch demo clip.
Unfortunately all the information is in Estonian and Google translation doesn't handle Estonian:
Unfortunately all the information is in Estonian and Google translation doesn't handle Estonian:
Dingo40
Been here for ages!
A couple of star performers in the idiom:
Chickers
Active member
DINGO:
Thank you.
Gee you are a wealth of information and knowledge.
Do you possess one of the Estonian Folk Harmonica's in your collection, and can you play it ?
I really enjoy the rich sound of the instrument as well as the music.
CHICKERS
Thank you.
Gee you are a wealth of information and knowledge.
Do you possess one of the Estonian Folk Harmonica's in your collection, and can you play it ?
I really enjoy the rich sound of the instrument as well as the music.
CHICKERS
Dingo40
Been here for ages!
Thank you for your kind comments
All I have are some piano accordions, I can't play anything else.
All my information comes from searching the web.
Our member Ffingers actually alerted me to the existence of this instrument, and I simply checked it out on the internet because I too like the sound of it as well as the music.
