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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    Music reminds me of Lawrence Welk Show.
    Ah yes that's the one... I knew it reminded me of something 1960s but I couldn't quite place it. Thanks!

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    These videos are so creepy. Not only do the players play their instruments and sing in unison, but their every gesture is in unison.... every breath, body angle, tilt of the shoulders, facial expression, all in synch together, all robotically orchestrated and executed. Even the kids do it. Shudder. These are human beings, I think, aren't they?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bratsche View Post
    These videos are so creepy. Not only do the players play their instruments and sing in unison, but their every gesture is in unison.... every breath, body angle, tilt of the shoulders, facial expression, all in synch together, all robotically orchestrated and executed. Even the kids do it. ...
    One wonders what their sheet music looks like... perhaps there are special new symbols or abbreviations for each different type of body movement & facial expression, written right into the sheet music...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    It is called an oungum and was invented by Kim Jong-Il when he was in college in the 1960s to be the North Korean national instrument. It is related to the Bipa, a Korean instrument like the Chinese pipa or the Japanese biwa.

    Here’s a polka-like tune we could all learn on Mandolin

    Actually, it is sort of an intriguing instrument. Do you know how it is tuned? There is very little about it on the web, or in any books on Asian instruments that I've looked at. And unlike the pipa or zhong ruan (and the so-called moon-guitar) it apparently has a flat fretboard. Interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JL277z View Post
    One wonders what their sheet music looks like... perhaps there are special new symbols or abbreviations for each different type of body movement & facial expression, written right into the sheet music...
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    Lol! Good one, Bertram.

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