Kemençe of the Black Sea orchestra

Kemençe of the Black Sea orchestraKemene of the Black Sea is a bowed string instrument which originated on the southern shore of the Black Sea. This is not the pear shaped "classical" kemene, but the long box shaped folk version. The instrument was sampled and programmed by Jordan Von Xerxes, who doesn't play it in the traditional style. While it can be used for traditional music, the way it's played also fits with the past few years Nordic trend of quietly played, intimately recorded

It was created in partnership with Pj Daauthor

Hadziha means "singers"

The other demos use instruments from the original version only

Fantasy libraries often sound like they're meant to provide the theme music for the brave deeds of mighty heroes

friendly and docile

palm muting

this instrument can produce some very high pitches via harmonics

Articulations with 2 round robins and 1 dynamic layer:

off the beaten path and not afraid to be over the top

The phrases are in the Ewe/Anlo and Ashanti languages

The tagelharpa has four gut strings

and the bass tagelharpa has three horsehair strings