The SF Hall of Fame Volume Two B (85 page)

[i]
kiv:
five
banks of resilient metal strips, fourteen to the bank, played by touching,
twisting, twanging.

[ii]
stimic:
three flute-like tubes equipped with plungers. Thumb and forefinger
squeeze a bag to force air across the mouth-pieces; the second, third and
fourth little fingers manipulate the slide. The
stimic
is an instrument
well-adapted to the sentiments of cool withdrawal, or even disapproval.

[iii]
kro
d
atch:
a small square sound-box strung with resined gut. The
musician scratches the strings with his fingernail, or strokes them with his
fingertips, to produce a variety of quietly formal sounds. The
krodatc
h
is also used as an instrument of insult.

[iv]
skaranyi:
a miniature bag-pipe, the sac squeezed between thumb and pa
l
m, the four fingers controlling the stops along
four tubes.

[v]
go
m
apard:
one of the few electric instruments used on Sirene. An
oscillator produces an oboe-like tone which is modulated, choked, vibrated,
raised and lowered in pitch by four keys.

[vi]
do
u
ble-kamanthil:
an instrument similar to the
ganga,
except the tones are produced by twisting and inclining a disk of resined
leather against one or more of the forty-six strings.