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THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF PLUCK-N-POS T THE JEW’S HARP GUILD 69954 Hidden Valley Lane Cove, OR 97824 USA Volume 13, Issue1 Spring 2009 What’s Inside Jew's Harp ● 2 A Word International from the Executive This issue contains an abundance of news, Director photos and articles contributed by Jew's Harp Guild News enthusiasts from around the world. While ● 3 - 5 Notes many of the words I received got lost in from Italy translation, the music, art, spirit and love of this wonderful instrument, and the folks that ● 6 CD Review hold it dear, did not. Our numbers may be "Underground small relative to other genre but our passion is Sessions" great. ● 7 Guide to As the festival season approaches, I urge you the Guild to play ambassador for our interest; share Denise with others our sites and newsletters, CDs Harrington and YouTube videos... and our passion. ● 7 Bulletin Photo from Spiridon Schischigin - THE I wish to thank Walter Maioli, Spiridon Board & INTERNATIONAL CENTRE AND THE Shishigin, Bernhard Folkestad, Michael KHOMUS (TRUMP) MUSEUM OF THE Pictorial WORLD PEOPLES Painting: see Wright and many others for their con- Archive - http://www.ilkhomus.ru/ tributions to this and other newsletters. Phono Harp Have fun this summer and keep on harpin'. ● 8 New Mark D. Poss - editor / webmaster - The Jew's Harp Guild Tutorials 2009 North American Jew's Harp Festival Norsk Jew’s Harp Festival 2009 July 31 to August 2 will be 18th – 20th Sept. in Gjøvik Friday, Saturday, Sunday http://www.munnharpe.no/ Bay City, Oregon Norsk_Munnharpeforum_eng.html www.jewsharpguild.org/festindx.html Pluck–N–Post 2 Hello Harpers! If you’re interested in membership or I hope this finds each of you enjoying a submitting an article to the newsletter, wonderful spring time and that you contact Michael at [email protected] continue to send your vibrational “twangs” A Word throughout the universe! I’d like to thank all our current members who renewed their 2009 membership … and From the Plans are just starting to “sprout” for the especially thank the many of you who have 17th annual North America Jew’s Harp chosen to “go green” with an electronic Executive Festival to be held again at the Bay City Arts subscription to “Pluck ‘n’ Post”. In these Center in Bay City, Oregon on July 31 and troubled environmental and financial times, Director August 1. Check the Guild’s website each and every conscious effort to conserve (www.jewsharpguild.org) for the latest helps tremendously … not only to insure the updates on festival information. Guild’s website and newsletter will continue … but also to honor and preserve Mother Denise Harrington recently emailed and Earth and all her inhabitants. said, “The Art Center received a grant for a new sound system and Jim [her husband] I’m continually amazed at all the cool went to Portland and bought it. BOSE, top Jew’s Harp related videos there are on of the line! Great with the acoustics...” www.YouTube.com. It’s interesting to find We’re very grateful to have such talented many of our international JH friends there assoc-iates and to be able to work with an and to see what new things they are doing organization that keeps improving its with the Jew’s harp. I especially enjoyed the amenities. It’s likely the sound system this clips from last year’s NAJHF and I’m very year will be the best ever! Thank you! grateful to the folks who took the time to post them there. Another recent email was from Michael Wright (England), General Secretary of the Until next time … keep twangin’ !! International Jew’s Harp Society. Fred Janet Gohring Crane will be stepping down as Journal Executive Directory Editor , they are working to find a replace- ment Editor. Future newsletter articles will "Be the change you wish to see in the world." include: copyright, the Balinese geng-gong, Gandhi a re-visit of John Wright’s 1970’s article on Organology, the Jew’s harp in the Law, the 2009 Jew’s Harp Guild News Crozier of William of Wykeham, at least one article on the Qua-Zulu Natal players, Guild Officers: hopefully an article on Janet Gohring, Executive Director the morchang tra- Ingrid Berkhout, Board Member at Large, dition in Rajasthan Coordinator NAJHF Collective Committee and one on recent Ralph Christensen, Board Member at Large PLUCK-N-POS T Argentinean research, plus the long-awaited final Welcome to our newest Guild Members: is published by the Jew's Harp Guild, 69954 Hidden Valley part of Fred Grass Roots Membership: Lane Cove, OR 97824 USA. Subscriptions and ad space Crane’s catalogue. Gary Nunokawa Washington State are included in JHG membership. Information in this Other ideas are in Hank Plow Arizona newsletter is also posted on the Jew's Harp Guild Website the pipeline and Robert MacPherson Pennsylvania (http://www.jewsharpguild.org). Newsletter submissions or they hope to bring Jim Kielma Canada comments may be sent to the above address or by email them to the fore, if Scott Bowker Illinois to: not in the next issue, then by the newsletter@ jewsharpguild.org Supporting Membership: time the IJHS Janet Gohring - Executive Director Walter Maioli (Sound Center “Synaulia in meets in Hungary Mark D. Poss - Editor, Pluck-N-Post & Webmaster Stabiae, International Laboratory, Sounds in 2010. They are Music and Dances from Roman antiquity) The Jew 's Harp Guild is a non-profit organization under section also working on a 501C(3) of the Internal Revenue Service code of 1954. Naples, Italy; Ralph Christensen, California newsletter and © 2009 The Jew's Harp Guild (Ralph is not a new member but many getting their thanks to him for becoming our very first website up and “Supporting Member”.) running. We’re on the Web Top Twanger - Cliff Hunt Arizona www.jewsharpguild.or Pluck–N–Post 3 2009 – Italy "Il silenzio è mafioso" Italian scacciapensieri = mafia ROMA 29 – 1 2009 - Parole dure contro il presidente della Repubblica a una manifestazione dell'Italia dei Valori. Antonio Di Pietro ha accusato Napolitano di non essere un "arbitro imparziale" e di tacere su alcuni temi come la giustizia e il Lodo Alfano. Le critiche hanno provocato subito la reazione del mondo politico. Da Montecitorio è stata espressa solidarietà al presidente e anche il Quirinale ha replicato giudicando "offensivo" contestare presunti "silenzi". English translation ROME 29 - 1 2009 - Hard words against the president of the Republic to a manifestation of the values of Italy. Antonio Di Peter has Il presidente della Repubblica Napolitano accused Napolitano not to be a " impartial scacciapensieri..... arbitrator" and tacere [sic] on some topics like the justice and Lodo Alfano. The critics on the first page have quickly provoked the reaction of the Indissolubly in Italy in the collective political world. From Montecitorio it has imaginary the Jew’s Harp symbolizes the been expressed solidarity to the president mafia. Here it’s on the first page of the 2009 and also the Quirinale has replied judging as soon as they speak of mafia, and not only "offensivo" to presumed contest " silenzi". also the "silence" it’s mafioso. Walter Maioli appears among the 199 Jew's harp Specialists of the World (Antropodium Mouth Harp Pages) He has "traditionally" played the Mouth Harp since he was a boy He employed it with the group Aktuala, by him founded, recording in 1974 the LP "The Earth". In 1998 plays the Jew's harp with the Siberian singer of Tuva, Sainko, in the CD "Naked Spirit". From more than 20 years he shares friendship of the Dutch Phons Bakx, become an authority in the Notes From Italy knowledge and in the relaunch of the Mouth harp. Walter experiments the instrument in the minimal music and the sound therapy. Born in Milan in 1950, artist, researcher, Contributed paleorganologist, composer and prehistoric by futurist flutist and multi-instrumentist, specialist in the Sounds of Nature - Experimental Walter Maioli archaeology and Music - Archaic sonorous cultures – Archaeo acoustic and Ancient sonorous landscapes - Nature's electronic explorations and rediscovery of the psichoacoustic powers of the archetypal sounds. Acoustic plannings between nature and technology.Precursor - innovator, from more than thirty five years applies his researches on the sounds and the origins of the musical instruments & the music in the spectacle, in the tourism, in the didactics and in the sound therapy, realizing concerts, lectures, seminars, laboratories, expositions, Artworks, installations, CD’s, books, sounds and music’s for the theater, video and film. Precursor of the music of the Mediterranean and the World Music. He has developed hundreds of concerts with the "Sounds of Prehistory" and with the group Synaulia, founded by him, presenting the musical instruments of the classical antiquity. Author of various publications, among which: Walter Maioli, "The Origins: The Sound and the Music" - Jaca Book, Milan 91. Pluck–N–Post 4 Inscribed to the INTERNATIONAL JEW'S HARP SOCIETY & the THE JEW'S HARP GUILD N. 1 The first results of The Mouth Harp Corner February 10 th 2009 They are gathered Walter Maioli, Luce Maioli, Ivan Gibellini, Katello and Nino Galasso, that together with Nathalie van Ravenstein are the basic components of the L’Angolo dello Scacciapensieri. Audio recordings and photos are taken. “A tromma portafortuna” contro il malocchio“The lucky charm Musicians mouth harp” against the hex. By Domenico Bevilacqua Katello aka Catello Gargiulo, 24 years, Two snakes have twisted, it sprouts out a born in Casola, Naples, musician, besides horn and a heart, and three bells tinkle as playing the tromma (the gypsies' trumpet as soon as you touch it.