From phma@oltronics.net Mon Mar 26 14:45:37 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 26 Mar 2001 22:45:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 79620 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2001 22:45:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Mar 2001 22:45:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.19) by mta3 with SMTP; 26 Mar 2001 23:46:36 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id F3EFD3C55D; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:34:33 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: lojbo zgike Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:23:38 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0103261734330D.25814@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat I was looking over the list of musical instruments and noticed that there are seven: damri, flani, janbe, jgita, pipno, tabra, xagri. I find it hard to believe that a people having only seven instruments has nevertheless invented the piano, or that they distinguish the piano from the harp, but not the harp from the guitar. I therefore suspect that the instrument called "pipno" in Lojbanistan is not the piano. Is it, rather, something like the melodica, which has 25 tuned reeds, each actuated by a key, which are in a piano arrangement? What are the other Lojbanic instruments like? What is Lojban dance like? phma