tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 15 13:42:38 2010
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RE: 'u' Instruments
naHQun:
>>http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2010/08/klingon-instruments-6601.jpg
>>A picture of the Klingon musical instruments used in 'u'.
>>
>> Anyone recognize anything that we have words for?
ter'eS:
>It's hard to tell from that picture what some of those things are or
>how you'd play them. Everything seems to be a variant of a drum,
>however; I don't see any stringed or wind instruments.
>
>Despite the photograph you posted, it looks and sounds like the
>instruments are pretty standard: an orchestral drum (and chimes?) kit, a
>flute and some sort of stringed instrument (maybe an 'ud).
Well, those three brown log things on the right could be {Sor Hap 'In}:
KGT 74-75: The general term for a percussion instrument of any kind is {'In} [...] The {'In} itself may be made [...] entirely of wood ({Sor Hap 'In}, wood 'In). One kind of {Sor Hap 'In} is a tube, open on both ends, with a longitudinal slit extending not quite to either end. It is hit with a {mupwI'Hom}.
That coiled red tube on the far right could be some kind of wind instrument, perhaps played by squeezing what looks like a blue rubber bulb on the end.
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons