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Everything that's music - About the Jew's harp
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Jew' harp making is the most important profession on this globe, probably in the whole galaxy.
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Not only because this small instrument contains the sound of all the instruments,
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but bacause one can make the integrated connection with it.
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It plays in your mouth, plucked with your hand and
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resonates the ancient sound that only shamans, rainmakers, transendent people could really feel.
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Jew’s harp has preserved its ancient character.
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In 1991 in Yakutia, Sibera, thousands of Jew’s harp (khomus) players
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and spirituals leaders gathered for the International Jew’s harp Conference.
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I think the world of Jew’s harp players is a separate world,
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a bit like the freemason. A closed, insrutable world
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that requires an absolute abstract way of thinking.
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The people who devote their lives to the Jew’s harp
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as performers are different existance than e.g. a viola artist.
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They think different. Those people who have appeared in my life as costumers,
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collagues, players all had special common spirit,
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that is not necesserily palpable with other musical instrument players.
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In the first phase I bend the frame, so that it remains central.
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The soul of the instrument, the spring is still missing.
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The steel spring is selected and precisely cut
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according to the tuning of the Jew’s harp.
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When it’s cut - here it is- you have a spring
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that is needed for an Aztec Mini Jew’s harp tuned to G#.
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Seeing these parts separate, they look insignificant,
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useless scrap of steel. But when they are inosculated,
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the instrument comes alive and gives you such music that captivates one’s heart.
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It is impossible to learn the Jew’s harp perfectly.
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The parameters of the instrument I’ve described might sound paranormal,
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but according to my 20 years of experience I think
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it is absolutely inscrutable, just like a cat.
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They made bamboo Jew’s harps in Polinesia, but I’ve created a steel version.
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These two Jew’s harps belong to the Aztec Mini type, but they have different sound.
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This type is called “Choir”.
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We talk about a small instrument that may mean a lot to someone.
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Not only because this instrument has always been with us from very early ages,
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but it can always be at your reach, you can play it at any time.
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It is one of the lightest instruments, but can play from the depths of your heart.
