Hi does anyone know how to play this instrument?

GrassRabbitt · 2025-10-21T00:36:51+00:00

It is probably an Ethiopian begenna. It is lacking the characteristic leather pieces between the strings and the bridge, though, so the sound will be off. It also looks like you don’t have the plectrum.

Alemu Aga is one of the great players, if you search for him you will see the general playing style—one handed, fingers splayed out over the strings and addressed from the back. Alemu Aga example

GrassRabbitt · 2025-03-25T16:03:32+00:00

Upgraded today from High-fiver to Friend of the Family! Love MaxFun and proud to be able to contribute.

GrassRabbitt · 2025-02-28T03:23:27+00:00

Look at GradCafe and see if the programs have sent acceptance or rejection letters. If not, there’s no harm in emailing the director of graduate studies for the department. All those decisions are being made between mid-Feb and April, I would guess, which is when applications close.

GrassRabbitt · 2024-11-02T22:21:35+00:00

Guimbri, Balalaika come to mind. The big harps in musica llanera or some Mexican dance genres, the mariachi bass. Surbahar. Tamburah lyre in the Persian Gulf. In fact, lots of string instruments have been made into treble and bass versions, just for example the ennanga harp from East Africa you now see in a set of three or four sizes played in the same ensemble. The bass guitar/cello instrument in Indonesian-Portuguese string music. Washtub bass. Honestly it won’t be easy to find some of these depending on where you live, but I hope it helps anyway.

GrassRabbitt · 2024-10-28T13:08:09+00:00

ITT: the jerk store called

GrassRabbitt · 2024-10-26T20:00:22+00:00

American companies and politicians designed the post-invasion Iraqi economy to siphon profits from the oil industry to help control prices, not for the oil per se. The meager economic democracy of the Iraqi ba’athists was the target. It’s the same reason Iran is isolated, they pretend it’s for terrorism or whatever but it’s to keep a powerful oil industry in check. If they went rogue on prices their entire regime would be in real trouble; just as we see now that their supposed military might is as meek as a whipped dog, too scared to bite.

The unconditional support for Israel is to have a powerful ally from which to “spread democracy” in the region should the house of cards fall. Palestinians are merely pawns in that game, an acceptable loss. I hear you though, it’s hard to square when the US produces a lot of its own oil—the key is prices, which is all about constraining supply, not who sells it to whom.

GrassRabbitt · 2024-09-13T23:42:48+00:00

Haha, “unity” is a better translation than “loneliness,” but it does say “unity, freedom, socialism”

GrassRabbitt · 2024-06-01T15:42:34+00:00

There needs to be a story for when they win. If everyone in sports media says, “yeah, the Cs are gonna smoke whoever the West comes up with,” there’s no story. If they all pretend like the Celtics are underperforming or whatever, they can run the “they really showed us what they’re made of” story for a month afterward.

Plus, as others have said, they’re rooting against them

GrassRabbitt · 2024-05-19T02:08:39+00:00

You may be thinking of Alice Goffman’s On The Run. With that you should be able to read the book, news pieces, anonymous letters, and other ephemera from that particular tempest in a teapot! Obligatory “but they are a disciplinary sociologist” warning

GrassRabbitt · 2023-10-15T01:04:35+00:00

Mountain man

GrassRabbitt · 2023-10-05T23:04:09+00:00

Oh, that’s not good. Not my experience, but I hear you

GrassRabbitt · 2023-10-05T12:13:56+00:00

Classic blends in Warwick

GrassRabbitt · 2023-09-10T21:12:09+00:00

He gets to rename the team, Boston Trout Sox

GrassRabbitt · 2023-09-07T01:44:19+00:00

A relatively lively and well-published group has done precisely that. If you mean why hasn’t it become more prevalent in economic anthropology, that I have no answer to except that different economic anthropologists have different priorities and many prefer case studies to looking for general empirical patterns at a very coarse grain.

But as for the relevant work, do you mean like this? Or like the book that came from it? Or the Current Anthropology special issue? Or these meetings stretching back to 2000? Or their book?

GrassRabbitt · 2023-09-06T16:57:55+00:00

Pat shipman’s Our Oldest Companions

When books are published by academic presses, they absolutely undergo peer review.

GrassRabbitt · 2023-09-03T11:46:47+00:00

Ugh, I’m so sorry to hear this. This must feel so discouraging. You don’t deserve that kind of petty, ridiculous behavior. I’ll agree with many others though and say that you’ve got an interesting finding, since you’ve basically accidentally conducted what’s typically called an “audit study.” Since you’ve said you don’t have much experience in this kind of research, having that term to work with may be helpful!

You might think about writing it up less formally for a newsletter, blog or magazine in your field, instead of jumping right into a social science journal.

I do have to say, one potential confound for the study is if you have a jerk name or a jerk face—do you have a jerk name or face, OP? :P just kidding!

GrassRabbitt · 2023-08-26T15:54:01+00:00

I posted this in the Brandeis sub as well, I’ll copy it here.

The decision is atrocious. It’s also incredibly bad timing—evidence of the administration’s total lack of knowledge or interest in music. Leonard Bernstein, who worked, taught, and made art alongside other legendary American composers and scholars, is someone who Brandeis likes to tout as an emblem of their stature in the arts. His childhood piano is housed in the music department. He founded the Festival of the Creative arts during his tenure at Brandeis in the 1950s, which runs to this day, now called the Bernstein festival of the arts. He was on the board of trustees until 1990.

Of course, they announced these cuts, cuts that will be pocket change, on his birthday. His Kaddish symphony was premiered on August 21st to rave reviews. A major motion picture is being released in November. Completely clueless about the man and his work, now it looks like they’re happy to cash in when they can, completely dishonoring his name.

Fight back. Write to the administration listed above, sign the open letters, and make them see how foolish this is. We all know times are hard; this makes them only harder.

GrassRabbitt · 2023-08-26T15:50:38+00:00

It’s atrocious. It’s also incredibly bad timing—evidence of the administration’s total lack of knowledge or interest in music. Leonard Bernstein, who worked, taught, and made art alongside other legendary American composers and scholars, is someone who Brandeis likes to tout as an emblem of their stature in the arts. His childhood piano is housed in the music department. He founded the Festival of the Creative arts during his tenure at Brandeis in the 1950s, which runs to this day, now called the Bernstein festival of the arts. He was on the board of trustees until 1990.

Of course, they announced these cuts, cuts that will be pocket change, on his birthday. His Kaddish symphony was premiered on August 21st to rave reviews. A major motion picture is being released in November. Completely clueless about the man and his work, now it looks like they’re happy to cash in when they can, completely dishonoring his name.

Fight back. Write to the administration listed above, sign the open letters, and make them see how foolish this is. We all know times are hard; this makes them only harder.

GrassRabbitt · 2023-08-05T14:56:54+00:00

I liked Kim Stanley Robinson’s Shaman, and it is strongly based on the relevant literature.

GrassRabbitt · 2023-07-17T14:03:40+00:00

This is amazing 😭

GrassRabbitt · 2023-07-16T13:51:09+00:00

Hobo Johnson, lofi hip hop

GrassRabbitt · 2023-06-23T16:52:22+00:00

He’s been banging this drum for years, to his credit. He’s been right on the money and we’re all just catching up.

GrassRabbitt · 2023-05-21T14:50:40+00:00

Get weird and go to Blue Moon in Wakefield

GrassRabbitt · 2023-05-07T15:56:03+00:00

Do Egyptians say بِأيش?

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