LeDuff Musical Instrument Collection
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LeDuff Musical Instrument Collection
LeDuff Musical Instrument Collection
This musical instrument is composed of a dried hollow gourd or calabash with a wide leather strap encircling and attached at the base and upper sides. The upper half of the gourd is fitted with a slightly loose draping of seed beads. Geometric burnt patterns decorate the gourd and similar patterns are repeated in the beadwork. The shaker is played by shaking rhythmically and/or holding the strap above the neck and hitting the bottom of the gourd with the opposite hand.
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The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe". Musicologists classify it as a brass aerophone.[1]
There are no reliable sources stating the didgeridoo's exact age. Archaeological studies of rock art in Northern Australia suggest that the people of the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory have been using the didgeridoo for less than 1,000 years, based on the dating of paintings on cave walls and shelters from this period.[2] A clear rock painting in Ginga Wardelirrhmeng, on the northern edge of the Arnhem Land plateau, from the freshwater period[3] shows a didgeridoo player and two songmen participating in an Ubarr Ceremony.[4]
A modern didgeridoo is usually cylindrical or conical, and can measure anywhere from 1 to 3 m (3 to 10 ft) long. Most are around 1.2 m (4 ft) long. Generally, the longer the instrument, the lower the pitch or key of the instrument. However, flared instruments play a higher pitch than unflared instruments of the same length.
Source: wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo
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A friction drum is a percussion instrument consisting of a single membrane stretched over a sound box, whose sound is produced by the player causing the membrane to vibrate by friction. The sound box may be a pot or jug or some open-ended hollow object. To produce the friction, the membrane may be directly rubbed with the fingers or through the use of a cloth, or a stick or cord which is attached to the centre of the membrane and then rubbed or moved with a hand, sponge or cloth, generally wet. The membrane may be depressed with the thumb while playing to vary the pitch. When a cord is used the instrument may be referred to as a "string drum" or "lion’s roar". In some friction drums, the friction is obtained by spinning the drum around a pivot.
Source: wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction_drum
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Wot - a circular panpipe made of 6-9 various lengths of small bamboo pipes. Play by holding between the hands, and while rotating, blow downwards into the pipes.
(mai-ruak or mai-hia, mai-ku-khan) Source: wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Thai_musical_instruments
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Shark Ocarina Medium Profile Right, LeDuff Musical Instrument Collection
Seis Musicos Ocarina Large, LeDuff Musical Instrument Collection
Depiction of six musicians playing (left to right): two flutes, two canos, a harp and a violin. Probably Bolivian origin.
Quetzalcoatl Ocarina Large Profile Right, LeDuff Musical Instrument Collection
Quetzalcoatl is a Mesoamerican deity whose name means "feathered serpent" in the Nahuatl language (Uto-Aztecan language family). Quetzalcoatl was related to gods of the wind, of Venus, of the dawn, of merchants and of arts, crafts and knowledge. He was also the patron god of the Aztec priesthood, of learning and knowledge. Quetzalcoatl was one of several important gods in the Aztec pantheon, a boundary maker (and transgressor) between earth and sky.
Grand Turtle Ocarina Back, LeDuff Musical Instrument Collection
JERRY LEDUFF was nominated for an Emmy for his original music composition that he performed on this ocarina and recorded as the soundtrack for “Bloodlines and Bridges,” a documentary produced by Detroit Public Television (WTVS-Detroit), nationally broadcast (1986).
This large ocarina has the mellowest, full-bodied sound of any ocarina! It has been damaged and repaired and still sounds wonderful!
Shakuhachi Flute, LeDuff Musical Instrument Collection
Shakuhachi Flute: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuhachi
Fine 19th century bass belonging to Donald Lewandowski of Nuevo Jazz Detroit.
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Fine 19th century bass belonging to Donald Lewandowski and pandeiro belonging to Patrick Fitzgibbon of Nuevo Jazz Detroit.
A few of Jerry LeDuff's percussion instruments atop a covered piano including his favorite small cuica (friction drum), rusty but loved! The small container holds a dampened cloth used to play the cuica; wrapped around the delicate stick inside the drum and tied into the center of the drumhead. The tall wood instrument on the left is called a "stir drum" but technically it is not a drum as it has no head. The rosewood slats are played by striking with a mallet on the outside, or "stirring" a mallet on the inside.
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The gyil is one of the top ancestors of the xylophones, balafons, marimbas, vibraphones (vibes)...a musical instrument played with mallets, striking graduated keys, suspended over hollowed gourds which act as resonators.
Those white "patches" on the gourds are traditionally spiderwebs pasted over the open holes of the gourd. This material creates a fabulous buzzing sound when the instrument is played and this is highly regarded.
Bernard Woma explained that he discovered a substitute material for repairing dried or damaged spiderwebbing while away from Ghana, his homeland: the packaging envelopes provided free by FedEx!
Focus on Don Lewandowski's 19th century bass (in performance with Nuevo Jazz Detroit).
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A few of Jerry LeDuff's percussion instruments in a corner of his studio.
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Wooden temple blocks and chimes - percussion instruments in Jerry LeDuff's studio.
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Bastian Trimpe's mandolin in macro, with a tricky optical effect. The printed label is attached on the inside back of the instrument and is seen through the f hole (or sound hole), yet if you didn't know, the shape appears raised!
Snare belonging to drummer Sean Dobbins, shot in performance at the Detroit Jazz Festival 2012. Sean Dobbins is a jazz drummer and faculty member of Oakland University (Rochester MI). www.allaboutjazz.com/seandobbins