Good news, everyone ^_^_^

I'm back and i want to tell what i did at last few months.

1st - i placed 7 groups at Jamendo.com (asked about it all that groups) and i think i should tell about them:
1. Алатырь/Alatir - nice slavic folk.
2. Менестрели/Menestreli - predecessors of Алатырь. Near same music.
3. Элессар/Elessar - nice rock with flute. Sounds like Jethro Tull.
4. Дети луны/Children of the moon - rap with some folk in lyrics and raggie.
5. Moray Eel - Death Metal. English lyrics.
6. Рада и Терновник/Rada and a blackthorn - psychodelic rock at begin and folk rock at the end.
7. Калевала/Kalevala - Folk Metal - very nice rhythms with folk instruments and nice female vocal.

Thay all are our heroes. Colonists of world with free music. So don't forget to support them if you will like someone's music.

2nd - I almost created my own group. It's name is "The era of the Northerners" (Эра Северян/Era Severian). The list of all and main our instruments:
- recorder soprano (main)
- recorder alto
- dan moi and two chomuses (main)
- bansuri
- buben
- didgeridoo (main)
- tin wistle
- pan flute
- kalyuka (main)

It's still just begin but soon i will be able to place here our records.
So tell us "Good luck, guys!" ^_^_^

Kouxian

Chinese advanced jaw harp or set from some "dan moi"

Some information from Wikipedia:

Kouxian is the Chinese generic term for the jaw harp, and as such is used to refer to all such instruments originating in China. In the Chinese language, however, the term is used to refer to all jaw harps, whether from China or elsewhere.

The kouxian, which likely originated in Asia, is used throughout China, and is particularly popular among non-Han ethnic groups living in China's southwest (including Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou). Each of these ethnic groups has its own name for the instrument in that ethnic group's own language. Such names include ho-hos. Kouxian may be made from bamboo or metal, and are often used as a courting instrument.

One variety of kouxian consists of between one and five brass leaves which are plucked in front of the opened mouth, using the mouth as a resonance chamber. Each leaf produces a different pitched sound when plucked, and notes' pitches are further refined by changing the volume and shape of the oral cavity. Leaves may be plucked one at a time or many at once to produce synthesizer-like melody.

How it looks:


Example of playing: