Freed Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 I have been given a Sankh - a conch shell - as a present - I know it will be hard to explain with words on a forum, but can anyone tell me how to 'play' it - I can't get a proper sound from it !! - My whole family has had a go - I guess we don't have the 'Lung' power - is there a 'trick' - or is it a case of practice and a good set of lungs ? This is what it looks like; Any Tips ? Cheers! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 do this without conch 1st: top lip slightly over bottom. fill your mouth with air and slowly relesae it at high pressure it's something like that - I've only tried it on a couple of occasions, but managed to do it each time. Your cheeks will hurt afterwards! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freed Posted June 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 Cheers ! Will try that ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenge_everything Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 purse the lips - in other words blow a fart sound into the celestial sankh! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hari Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 It's like playing a trumpet.Your lips have to vibrate.You can place your hand over the opening to produce different sounds.Chak de phatte!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 shank's music is one of celestial music which plays at trikurti on it's way to dasam dwara. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Lung Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 shank's music is one of celestial music which plays at trikurti on it's way to dasam dwara. according to? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Lung Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 This is to do with the level one can attain. The conch is not so much an instrument as a harmonic resonator. You know the scene in Enter The Dragon with the hall of mirrors causing Bruce Lee's confusion? He was caught off guard. The images in the mirrors stretch to infinity in a constant pattern depending on the shape of the environ. The shape of the inside of the conch shell can be thought of as an acoustic echo-chamber environ in a fractal pattern. The fractal emerges from and extends to infinity. The pockets of harmonic resonance (parts of the shell that vibrate) range from small to large, taking the oscillation and reproducing the same harmonic resonation in as wide a frequency range as possible (high to low), following the strictly defined rules of the fractal. The combined vibration is one clean harmonic sound made up of high to low clean harmonic sounds. Distilling the essence of this, the rule that seems to be represented by the ancients' use of the conch shell is the shaping of vibration. If that is indeed the principle, then in this age of electronic amplifiers we are not limited to using this primitive device. "The level one can attain": the original script for the never-filmed Game of Death is relevant, as well as the hall of mirrors scene in Enter the Dragon. Increasing the size of the conch shell will only increase the amplitude and can never change the frequency range of the harmonics . The tone/pitch is controlled by the human being's lips. N30 says that this represents the level of attainment of the trikurti, which is a level of understanding not limited by time or space. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 i m not 100 % it's shank since i havent experieinced it myself.. i got it from books of saints ..all i m saying music that comes out after blowing an shankh is one of celestial music- panch shabad (10 divine music)...other one if i remember correctly is music of mardang... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenge_everything Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 can anaahad naad be equated to naahad naad? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Lung Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 CE of course it can't. P cannot be equated with not-P. Why do you ask? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malwe Da Sher Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 CE's way was best. close lips then make a high pitched noise. the sunkh has maha maha maha maha power man. akaaal 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SAdmin Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 Freed, You might want to email this artist. http://www.trombone.org/articles/library/steveturre-mc.asp 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenge_everything Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 the question was rhetorical aimed specifically at neo i think people are confused bruce - i really think they are neo - don't constantly try to equate anaahad naad to naahaad naad. Thats a simple way of saying what i wanted to say 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tSingh Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 pull both lips in over your teeth and build pressure in the mouth and 'poooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwaaaaap' some are easier than others, wet your lips also that sometimes helps. I remember last year seeing a haggered old Udasi nearly falling unconscious trying to play a big shankh and all that was coming out was an incredibly whistlely farty sound. ...become the shankh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freed Posted June 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 A Big Thank You to all of you ! I am getting better - But I've got 'face-Ache' from all that blowing ! Talking of Udasis here is a great pic of a 'Narsingha' player outside the Udasi dera Amritsar * taken from Folk Music & Musical Instruments of Punjab - Alka Pande -Mapin - 1999 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tSingh Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 They have narsingha every night at brahmboota akhara - such an eerie sound 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 what's the difference between anaahad naad to naahaad naad.? :? .. now i m really confused ...ce baba please answer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Lung Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 If a tree falls in the middle of the woods with nobody within earshot, does it make a sound? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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