From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Mar 26 15:04:58 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 26 Mar 2001 23:04:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 26623 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2001 23:04:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Mar 2001 23:04:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 26 Mar 2001 23:04:56 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12247; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:07:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3ABFCBA1.6050904@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:07:13 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: phma@oltronics.net Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] lojbo zgike References: <0103261734330D.25814@neofelis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Pierre Abbat wrote: > I was looking over the list of musical instruments and noticed that there are > seven: Actually, there are eight (you missed "tabra") *categories* of musical instruments: damri: any untuned/partly tuned percussion instrument flani: any air-reed instrument janbe: any fully tuned percussion instrument jgita: any plucked or bowed string instrument pipno: any keyboard instrument tabra: any lip-reed instrument xagri: any physical-reed instrument Some of these overlap: a harpsichord is both a pipno and a jgita. . 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 > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein