wood and string

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Leaders: Erkan-Yilmaz and wood_and_string
Join Policy: Open
Created on: 13 Feb 2011
Description:

combine wood & string, close your eyes and enjoy the emerging sounds of the instruments

global tag "wood and string": PLAY

Being able to play the below instruments individually only became uncomfortable, so the new tag "wood and string" is used. About 80% of the below instruments are already tagged :-) You can help too, see here.

Currently there are following ways to start listening:
1. user wood_and_string's library
2. global tag: wood and string
3. below tags
4. group radio (note: this will play also other tracks users have)
5. Spotify-playlists:
- from user: wood_and_string
-- top artists
-- recommendations
- "Wood and String" (so far only their own albums and not the also-appears-on-albums since I'm not always sure they fall under the tag)
6. play (available) tracks on Youtube
from user wood_and_string:
- top artists
- recommendations

haegeum (play), sohaegeum, gayageum (play), kayagum, ajaeng

koto (play), shamisen (play), kokyu, biwa (play)

erhu (play), huqin (play), gaohu (play), guzheng (play), gu zheng (play), zheng, guqin (play), pipa (play), zhonghu, banhu (play), jinghu, sihu, ruan, yangqin (play)

morin khuur (play), matouqin, yatga, igil (play)

byzaanchy

kobyz

dan tranh

jetigen

baglama (play), saz (play), oud (play), tanbur (play), rebab, (play), tar (play)

keman (play), kemenche (play), kamancheh (play) / kamanche (play), kamancha (play), violin (play)

sarangi (play), sitar (play), sarinda (play), sarod (play), santoor (play)
veena (play)
kantele (play), kankles (play)

kora (play), gonje, njarka, (play), masenqo, ngoni, (play),

gudok

barbat (play), kanun (play), qanun (play),

setar (play), dotar (play), dutar (play)

bouzouki (play)

more to come...
(if you have ideas, please tell us)

Active Discussions

FritzDeMers commented on
“Events involving string instruments” (17) January 2012

Erkan-Yilmaz commented on
“Unique to this Group (Weekly Top Artists)” (2) July 2011

Erkan-Yilmaz commented on
“playable songs here at last.fm (goal: optimizing tags + decipher…” June 2011

Alainn commented on
“most played artists by group for last 4 months...” (16) June 2011

Erkan-Yilmaz commented on
“feedback” June 2011

Recent Journals

erhu (Chinese string instrument) - what do last.fm listeners like? by Erkan-Yilmaz | 16 Aug 2011 | 1 comment
current situation on Korean haegeum music by Erkan-Yilmaz | 15 Aug 2011 | 1 comment
New punishment forms with old music ? by Erkan-Yilmaz | 24 Jun 2011 | 3 comments

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Weekly Top Artists

Overall Unique to this Group

1	The Beatles	5
2	Dhafer Youssef	5
3	Simon & Garfunkel	5
4	Pink Floyd	4
5	Summoning	4
6	John Cage	4
7	Daft Punk	4
8	Natacha Atlas	4
9	Miles Davis	4
10	The Byrds	4

Connected Artists

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Shandianzhan

Well, those guys also might be interesting for this group: Chen Leiji (guqin), Kim Young-gil (ajaeng), SooEun Kwak (gayageum) and Wu Zhao (guqin).

8 Dec 2012 Reply
Erkan-Yilmaz

from Shandianzhan posted on 22 Oct 9:48 PM: Hey, Erkan! Ich wollte dich noch auf zwei Künstler aufmerksam machen, die für die "wood and string"-Gruppe interessant wären und vielleicht auch für deine Library und die von wood_and_string: Gu Meigeng und Xu Lisun. Beide spielen die guqin.

30 Oct 2012 Reply
Erkan-Yilmaz

Thanks Alain. @Ranunculus it is a woodwind instrument, but since it has no strings I did not consider it yet

27 Oct 2012 Reply
Alainn

It's possible to create a tweaked version of the Wood and String radio, example: (library:wood_and_string or rec:wood_and_string) not library:Alainn opt:discovery|true (replace Alainn with your own username). Go to http://rumkin.com/tools/compression/base64.php , paste the example, press "Encode to base64" and you should get something like KGxpYnJhcnk6d29vZF9hbmRfc3RyaW5nIG9yIHJlYzp3b29kX2FuZF9zdHJpbmcpIG5vdCBsaWJyYXJ5OkFsYWlubiBvcHQ6ZGlzY292ZXJ5fHRydWU= Append that string to either (last.fm-app) lastfm://rql/ or (web player) http://last.fm/listen/rql/ and you should be able to hear the new tracks.

10 Oct 2012 Reply
Ranunculus

And where is duduk?

7 Oct 2012 Reply
Erkan-Yilmaz

welcome and updated :-) merci...

16 Oct 2011 Reply
noeuropaaqui

Nice group, a lot of good stuff to explore different cultures! Maybe Zither instruments also should be added to the list not only santoor but also kanklės or kantele.

15 Oct 2011 Reply
bluesbomb

wood and string is not a banal tag, it identifies the acoustic sound of instruments chordophones, classical and modern music, Western or Eastern, ethnic, "academic". Different ages and cultures are summarized in two words, the rest is music ... simple and genial

8 Jun 2011 Reply
Erkan-Yilmaz

One of our group members: Thierry-Jean Lanza aka Frenchytj died :-( Please leave a shout at his user page for his family. Thanks!

22 May 2011 Reply
Frenchytj

Hi to all the"wood and strings group members! I have a wish:Could someone(s) start a list with the named instruments above,with a short description,history,origin,geographical dispersion,and their role in their national/regional culture.I know,it's a piece of a hard work, but it would be a valuable acquisition for worldmusic lovers/listeners/musicians and also composers.i'll try to help!

5 May 2011 Reply
FritzDeMers

Yes, thanks to Erkan-Yilmaz. Up to 15 members, and even showing up in my tag-o-cloud-o-sphere.

12 Apr 2011 Reply
AZADIBOK

Big thanks to Erkan-Yilmaz!

6 Mar 2011 Reply
AZADIBOK

ABSOLUTELY GREAT!!!

6 Mar 2011 Reply
rodionm

Great idea!

24 Feb 2011 Reply
IanAR

The main purpose of wood is to make bass clarinets! ;o)

14 Feb 2011 Reply