The best of the Gourds songs are also those that manage ... where he spent five years writing about music. He’d previously spent five years in book publishing, working with George R.R. Martin ...

no plant trotted the globe like the bottle gourd. It was used as a children's swimming aid in the Roman empire and as a pontoon in Egypt, as a fishing-net float in ancient Peru and as a musical ...

[1] For most people, gourds are for eating, not for making music. In Chinese music, gourds fall into one of the eight categories of instruments and produce some of the most essential sounds in a ...

In a Belconnen gardening, gourds are being grown to be made into musical instruments. Donna Vaughan moved to the house with large garden in Evatt in 2010. Larry O'Shea, who was born in Coolamon in ...

A chief source of income for the growers are the manufacturers of stringed musical instruments such as the tanpura and sitar. The shell of the gourd is perfectly suited for the devices’ deep ...

This is the second in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

A Bengali folk song sings paeans to the shadher lau. But in the tribal hinterland of the past, the bottle gourd used to team up with bamboo and strings to make music. The instrument, called tuhila, ...

having spent time making music with Labradoodle, It’s Always Fuzzy and Fake Lake, but Gourd is very much his brainchild. Vol. 1 is Gourd’s first release, an EP which explores the many corners ...

In musical terms, the film featured perhaps the greatest film composer still breathing, John Williams. And then there”s little old Gourd Music of Santa Cruz. Gourd is part of the “Lincoln ...