Music
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Awake due to hammering rain and so I’m having a cup of tea. I ought to be gently reading really rather than screen time.
Occasionally I have some tingsha bells. The chime is incredibly pure and clean, there are a few on this site with recordings, mine are plain flying saucer shape as above and produce a very lovely tone that takes a long time to decay.
www.himalayasshop.com
Occasionally I have some tingsha bells. The chime is incredibly pure and clean, there are a few on this site with recordings, mine are plain flying saucer shape as above and produce a very lovely tone that takes a long time to decay.
Himalayas Tingsha Bell - 2500 Hertz Frequency Sound Bell
Shop for the best quality tingsha bell made with pure metals from The Himalayas. Long Resonance and good quality vegan strap!
www.himalayasshop.com
Yes
I took my inspiration from Milo of Croton and started with a childs keyboard. Just added a few notes at a time.
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In more seriousness , good question , kudos to those that do - love those people that come to a campfire with a guitar then try to sing that latest songs.
On one of our overland treks in North Africa a member of the group was a competition piper and he took his bagpipes everywhere. I can tell you there is nothing so moving as bagpipes well played at the top of a Saharan dune in the night.
Fair play to the lad, he would only play one tune then stop.
Fair play to the lad, he would only play one tune then stop.
People who play music in the woods have two great gifts. The first is to entertain others who like to hear music in the woods. The second is to get me to break camp and move far away from them.
I have a pair of these, at least I think they’re the same thing. I bought mine in Kathmandu 30 odd years ago. Mine have symbols embossed around them. Sadly though, not knowing anything about them, I didn’t try the other ones on offer, mine produce an ever so slight off beat as they’re slightly different in frequency.Awake due to hammering rain and so I’m having a cup of tea. I ought to be gently reading really rather than screen time.
Occasionally I have some tingsha bells. The chime is incredibly pure and clean, there are a few on this site with recordings, mine are plain flying saucer shape as above and produce a very lovely tone that takes a long time to decay.
Himalayas Tingsha Bell - 2500 Hertz Frequency Sound Bell
Shop for the best quality tingsha bell made with pure metals from The Himalayas. Long Resonance and good quality vegan strap!
Nice idea to take them out into nature though, I’ll try that, especially lying in my hammock, rocking myself gently!
Just checked the site out, happy to say, they didn’t cost anyway near that much!
Wanted to get a decent Kukri as well, but the prices being asked from the street vendors for one with steel that you couldn’t scrape with your finger nail were ridiculous.
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No, I didn’t pay such a large amount, I used that site as they have recordings. You can easily pay 3 or 4 times that amount if you want some made on the full moon. I think although they’re not out to rip people off, there’s an element of seeing you coming.I have a pair of these, at least I think they’re the same thing. I bought mine in Kathmandu 30 odd years ago. Mine have symbols embossed around them. Sadly though, not knowing anything about them, I didn’t try the other ones on offer, mine produce an ever so slight off beat as they’re slightly different in frequency.
Nice idea to take them out into nature though, I’ll try that, especially lying in my hammock, rocking myself gently!
Just checked the site out, happy to say, they didn’t cost anyway near that much!
Ok, let’s see how well this works. Pretty sure the forum software need me to host vids elsewhere so I’ve bunged it on youtube. Turn your monitor up, I could hear the tone for a good 30 seconds. There’s strong evidence as to why tone is used in ritual, whether that be a concert, festival, spiritual summoning. Or for those Skinwalker Ranch fans, some native Americans using ancient drums and chants and an infra red camera recording a man made circle/spiral atop a stone mesa to increase in temperature.
I don’t have a particular use for these bells, but I feel how clean the tone is.
I don’t have a particular use for these bells, but I feel how clean the tone is.
Now you’ve got me thinking! I used to have one half a century ago.
@Kadushu Do you play it out of doors?
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I am yeah, but I did return the first pair. I reckon any instrument, ideally, needs to be a try and buy, but the only shops I’ve been to that sell these types of things are in Glastonbury town and I have reasons not to want to be there at the moment.
@FerlasDave, I have two or three of them. A couple of the cheaper small ones that are ok, and one really nice one. Can play them too.
Look up Vietnamese Dan Moi, they have a really nice sound, I have a set of 5 of them somewhere.
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Just as part of the interest in nature and sound, this pic turned up yesterday.
Wow that’s very interesting. I thought most sea snail shells like the whelk and winkle were formed in a fibonacci series I have never heard or thought of a construction based in a harmonic series. Thank you!
I wonder if the fifth harmonic in the conch shell is as discordant as it is to our ears - a sort of Gastropod teenage!
Different songbirds use pentatonic and diatonic musical scales. I have had blackbirds singing along when I play lower notes but they go quite as I move up the scale.
Music is just part of nature. Playing music when camped is no different from the woodsmoke of your fire.
I wonder if the fifth harmonic in the conch shell is as discordant as it is to our ears - a sort of Gastropod teenage!
Different songbirds use pentatonic and diatonic musical scales. I have had blackbirds singing along when I play lower notes but they go quite as I move up the scale.
Music is just part of nature. Playing music when camped is no different from the woodsmoke of your fire.
Mmm... we'll have to agree to disagree; I'd far rather hear owls, foxes, nightjars than someone strumming Kum ba yah.
I'm with British Red and Broch. Why go out into the sounds of nature then inflict your choice in music on anyone else there?
I've been doing a camping (not bushcraft) with mates thing on my dad's farm for over 20 years now and music is highy discouraged/banned. You cannot have 30 to 40 people there and please all of them with any particular type of music. There will always be someone to whom the music is annoying/grating, so it's best not to have it at all.
I've been doing a camping (not bushcraft) with mates thing on my dad's farm for over 20 years now and music is highy discouraged/banned. You cannot have 30 to 40 people there and please all of them with any particular type of music. There will always be someone to whom the music is annoying/grating, so it's best not to have it at all.
How sad.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees & the stars; you have a right to be here.
You ARE Nature!
While I enjoy a camp singalong, I’m predominantly a solo camper. My OP referred more to playing or singing on your own.
Is bushcraft really free of music?
How very very sad.
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You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees & the stars; you have a right to be here.
You ARE Nature!
While I enjoy a camp singalong, I’m predominantly a solo camper. My OP referred more to playing or singing on your own.
Is bushcraft really free of music?
How very very sad.
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