these are the timesdirty beloved
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16.7.04

Gakkigaku Shiryôkan (Collection for Organology), Kunitachi College of Music

including:
Hawaiian Pahu
Swiss Laute
Uzbek Dutar
Turkish Kasik
Greek Lyra
Indian Gopi Yantra
Yugoslavian Darbuk
New Guinean Bull Roarer
African Aoko
Colombian Saxophone
German Viola d'Amore
Japanese Toy Piano
USA [indigenous] Kettle Drum
Italian Chitarra Battente
Welsh Cwrth
English Guitar[!]
Jordanian Rababa
Tibetan Rkang-gling
Chinese Liuqin
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Most images are horribly watermarked, to prevent their theft one assumes. And isn't the world a better place for these images not being stolen and used in unimaginably horrible ways. Pirates of aesthetic distinction! Masking their greed as antique stringed instruments! Off the starboard bow!
Still it's a trove, over 2000 images and descriptions of musical implements from literally everywhere on earth.
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Discovered on a delve into Gui Zhou
after looking at Gui Zhou Pictures
at leylop, who just got back from there
leylop has a brilliant eye

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