Saturday, 17 January 2009

My new stick

I'm getting a bit over excited about this but I just bought this stick today and it's amazing.
Basically it's a tribal instrument from the Uttar Pradesh region up North and it's a hollow bamboo stick, about one meter long.
You swing it with an intricate twist of your hand and it makes the most beautiful whistling sound that varies by how fast and in which direction you swing it in.
It's called a wind flute and I'm going to attempt to travel to the other end of india with it in my guitar case.

Oh yeah, and my guitar, it's not so happy.
It was already pretty crappy, i bought it second hand from a guy in Macleod Ganj but I'm going to try and make it back to his shop before I leave india and be like "cheeers, here's your guitar back, sorry about the various scratches, dents and mysterious cracks..."

It's all music to my ears.

Oh, I'm also pretty stoked right now as a just had 2 pints of beer out of a really nice and stylish teapot.
I will explain...



later.

1 comments:

Alex said...

Magic sticks in India! :D
Do the trees whistle too? If ou got enough trees you could make a woodwind section of an orchestra :D oh god that pun was shite...
Missing you mairi! Theres an idea of a date for Edinburgh Rocks 3 now :D