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I’m not a musician, but lately I found great interest in instruments. Here is a picture of me playing the slit gong. I almost got kicked from the museum because I was drumming for 30 minutes   loved the bass! I don’t think we will ever get equipment to record the real sound this gong made!

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and find out the beginning of the modern bass and text messaging!

A Slit gong, sometimes also called “slit drum”, is a log drum used throughout Africa, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. It is usually called a boungu in Africa. A whole log is hollowed out through a narrow slit running the length of the log. Slit gong players use padded sticks to produce a range of penetrating musical notes, depending on where and how the gong is struck. The gong may be carved into various pleasing or significant shapes. Slit gongs are often referred to as drums, even though this is slightly incorrect; drums are technically membranophones whereas a slit gong is an idiophone.

In most instruments, the wood on the two sides of the slit is of different thickness, resulting in tones of different pitch. They can therefore be used to imitate the tonal patterns found in tonal languages. Instruments with two slits (like the ones shown on the picture) can thus have up to four different pitches.

Slit gongs, strategically situated for optimal acoustic transmission (e.g. along a river or valley), have been used for long-distance communication. Lats say you was in the Jungle and the village was attacked I will have played the alarm, they had different pattern for different situation or people to call!

Amazing right?!

I’m back from paradise

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I will be in Hawaii one more week and wen I come back home in NJ on 29 I will DJ at Asbury Aqua Beach Lounge. Got more projects on the run and a new audio/video mix + some more pictures from the big island.

Aloha…

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