Poem ‘Khomus' is a significant written work of Kulakovskiy. The morsing is placed on the front teeth, with slightly pouted lips and held firmly in the hand. It is struck using the index finger of the other hand to produce sound. Movement of the player's tongue while making nasal sounds is used to change the pitch. This can be achieved when the syllable 'Nga' or a variant thereof, is sounded through the nose while air is pushed out or pulled in through the mouth. This aids the meditation process and thus some players use it as a form of practising pranayama Others speak into the instruments while playing, thus giving it the effect of a light haunting echo.
Clothes. If you are coming here from abroad during the winter, you will find that your clothes are insufficiently warm. Russians and Yakuts know a thing or two about keeping warm, so Yakutsk is a fine place to pick up a coat or some fur lined boots. The cheapest options, and they are very affordable, are without a doubt in the city markets, Stolichny (Столичный) and Mann'yttayah (Манньыаттаах). To avoid the stresses of haggling and "foreigner" pricing, you can pay a bit more in any of the shops and boutiques in the small downtown commercial center along Lenin Prospect, like Atlant (Атлант), Optimist (Оптимист), Favorit (Фаворит), Apel'sin (Апельсин), and many others.
A week later, at Rauland, I was strolling to the dining hall from my dorm room when I spotted a congress moment. A young woman from Japan was on one knee, playing her mookh-kuri for several tykes. As she yanked the string of the bamboo instrument the children looked on in wonder. For although the metal munnharpa is known in Rauland, there is no word in Norwegian for mookh-kuri.
This modern Jew's harp type is called after Bonnani's old metaphor Thought Dispeller. It is made of an aluminium frame, coated in all kind of metallic colors, like green, yellow, blue, red et cetera. It is produced by Andrea Bugari & Son in the town of Castelfidardo in the Marche-region. Its model is closed over the whole frame: it has no open fork-end as usual with Jew's harps. It is a large-scale mechanical product for commercial trade. A counter-sunk patentnumber for protection is imprinted at the back of its frame. On the other side we see rank-ornaments imprinted.
One of my favorite moments of the congress followed: Spiridon Shishigin, master of Yakut nature improvisation, got up on stage, leaned into the microphone-and played a lovely waltz. After that the personnel on stage, and the music played, was everchanging. In keeping with the dance music theme, Larry Hanks and I reprised our version of the Tennessee Waltz, this time accompanied by Sara, an Academy student from Canada who can warble like a human kazoo. It was passing strange, and it was a hoot.
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Here the appropriateness of the khomus to the music theme plays a great role. Thus, for imitating a cuckoo, a lark, saying the words of a song it is good to use a khomus with a relatively low basic sound. For fast modern music it is better to use a khomus with a short tongue, i.e. a high sound. For the wind imitation you need a khomus with a very sensitive tongue, which sounds from the person's breath.
The enchanting sound of this wind chime is the result of a special tuning using the "Golden Ratio." This ratio, discovered by the ancient Greeks, can be found throughout nature. Green jade is a sacred stone of Asia and comes in a variety of shades from creamy sea foam to deep emerald. Jade was often used for buttons, beads and other decorations. Green contains the powerful energies of nature, growth and a desire to expand your horizons. We blended jade-colored stones with other accents to create this beautiful windchime. Let our Jade Chime help to promote change, growth and balance in your life.
The XOMUS (or khomus) is a jaw harp, also known as a Jew's harp. The metal xomus used in Tuvan music is called the demir-xomus. The instrument consists of a flexible metal tongue attached to a frame. The frame is held against the performer's teeth, and the metal tongue is plucked with the finger to produce a note. The xomus is a one-pitch instrument, but the player, by changing the shape of his mouth and the flow of air, creates melodies by emphasizing various overtones. Ayan Shirizhik is pictured playing the xomus.
A Yakutian jaw harp dangles from the neck of Spiridon Shishigin on a thin braided cord. It is embedded in a little wooden box. The jaw harp catches the eye as it is embellished with a big 65”. This Khomus”, says Spiridon, after he finishes playing the first tune on another jaw harp, I got as a present from my friends on my 65th birthday. That was last year. Now, I'm 66 years old. I've been playing since I'm 5. The Khomus is a good friend of mine for 56 years now.” He speaks cautiously, with a lowered voice. He smiles, then takes the precious jaw harp into both of his hands, lifts it to the mouth, pauses, pants, lets it sink to his breast for a moment, as though he'd like to emphasize his words by these movements, and then finally he puts the instrument that marks his anniversary to his lips.
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