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On the Acoustics and the Systematic Classification of the Jaw's Harp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Ola Kai Ledang
Ola Kai Ledang*
Affiliation:
Universitetet I Trondheim, Musikkvitenskapelig Institutt, Norway
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Numerous theories of the sound producing mechanism of the jaw's harp have been put forward, none of which appears quite convincing or appropriate. The main reason for this seems to be that certain essentials of the making of and playing on this instrument have been neglected, underestimated or simply overlooked by the investigators. This paper represents an attempt to show some weak points of the existing theories, to describe an empiric investigation by means of electronic sound spectrographs, and finally, to establish a new general outlook on the acoustical and musical properties of the jaw's harp.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 4 , 1972 , pp. 95 - 103
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Copyright © 1973 By the International Folk Music Council 

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1. Li Hwei, “A Comparative Study of the Jaw's Harps among the Aborigines of Formosa and East Asia,” Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology (Academia Sinica), I(1956), 85–140, XVIII-XXIX; Curt Sachs, “Die Maultrommel. Eine typologische Vorstudie,” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 49 (1917), 185–200.Google Scholar

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Additional bibliographic references: Frederick Crane, “The Jew's Harp as Aerophone,” Galpin Society Journal 21 (1968), 66–69; Bruno Ravinkar, “Akustična študija Drumeljce,” Musikološki Zbornik (Ljubljana), 9 (1970), 99–104.Google Scholar