{"id":1517,"date":"2007-10-08T20:34:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2007-10-08T20:34:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T18:34:58","slug":"underestimated-instruments-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"underestimated instruments 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img src='http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2007\/10\/spoons.JPG' alt='spoons.JPG' \/><\/div>\n<p>We add the following three instruments to our unsorted and incomplete list of music instruments that deserve more attention than they get<!--more-->:<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-UnZLN3aYZs&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">balloon bass<\/a><br \/>\n(see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rkgkp1PCQuE&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">here<\/a> for a &#8220;making of&#8221;). Ingenious design.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-tuebingen.de\/uni\/qvo\/pm\/pm2004\/pm824.html\">mammoth ivory flute<\/a> shows that more than 30.000 years ago music was something important already.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spoon\"> spoon<\/a>: Not an instrument in the first place: Besides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9C3gpIwk_FQ\">playing a pair of them<\/a> ( or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H3TFkvEmBYM\">more<\/a>), the spoon can be put to use in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1xPGqWt3L7A\">guitar playing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an update to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=927\">underestimated instruments 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We add the following three instruments to our unsorted and incomplete list of music instruments that deserve more attention than they get<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}