noize board ORFF ENSEMBLE thread

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who else was in one of these, fess up

hi

i played mostly glockenspeil and bass marimba

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never had orff ensemble, only the occassional tone blocks, triangles, & recorders

I learned to play this music.

I am kind of surprised that no GIS results are my mother + her classes.

ugh recorder ensemble! i hated the recorder ensemble kids

i am jealous that tehresa got to be in a gamelan ensemble ;_;

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OMG *HUGZ*

you say carmina, i say carmana, let's call the whole thing orff

I sang in Carmina Burana freshman year of college. So much fun.

i never took a music class until college.
true story.
warwick, RI public school system does NOT have a good musical education program.

it's not to late to start an orff ensemble!

we need some xylophones tho.

xylophones are prohibitively expensive :(

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let's make a marimba guyzs

There's a marimba company in Asbury Park, NJ!!

They're called Malletech and apparently are one of the biggies...? They are also indirectly the reason my aunt has a giant beautiful Yamaha one.

gamelan ensemble = me.

I will sew us all fuzzy stickbags out of giant fluffy towels.

our gradeschool music teacher could never figure out why we always wanted to sing Old Dan Tucker (a k a Old Damn Fucker)

welcome to my every wednesday morning.

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ugh i wish i had been in an orff ensemble!! gamelan was awesoms except when i moved to ny i tried to join the only balinese anklung ensemble i could ifnd and the dude told me it would be too novice for me. i know indonesian consulate has one but it's mostly javanese. where do i find balinese anklung!??!! i miss! blues control had a suling when i saw them and that excited me soooo much i think i need to def play some gamelan soon!!!

i love orff instruments! too!

was never in an ensemble though, esp one with matching shirts
i wish i had a wooden glockenspiel

I rented a xylophone for a while when taking drum lessons and hated the thing. I just wanted to play the bloody drums. Never was in an Orff though.

i played drums tonight for a bit and it felt good

I have never heard of an Orff Ensemble before.

I played marimba/vibes in marching band my junior year (BAD IDEA HOLY SHIT CREEPY KIDS)

I was really good at it tho!

we have a metal xylophone, which is v nice, but i am fond of the weird hollow sound of these wooden ones
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VIBES!

I like the marimba and the vibraphone, just not the xylophone. I don't like playing any of them though - it's like being in a nightmare where you have to play a giant piano with two skinny, awkward little fingers.

Vibes I didn't like so much because the mallets didn't bounce back easily (christ my forearms were like ROCKS junior year) and you had to keep stepping back and forth off the pedal. Marimba is the shit, you just beat that shit.

When I get a place of my own I'm gonna buy a marimba omg

vibraphone really require four mallet technique i wish i possessed

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ooops sorry guysz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orff_Schulwerk

"The Orff approach of music education uses very rudimentary forms of everyday activities in the purpose of music creation by young individuals. This includes singing in groups and performing voice instrumental music, rhymes and playing instruments such as the metallophone, xylophone, glockenspiel, and other percussive instruments. The music generated is largely improvisational and original tonal constructions and this builds a sense of confidence and interest in the process of creative thinking. Children also make music together in a group and hence realize the joys of group co-ordination and cohesion. It also involves the participation of other adults and parents in music making. Thus it brings the role of parent in child education in a central position. When interesting original music has been generated by the groups or individual child, then a desire to record it in written format arises. Thus the need to learn writing a score emerges by itself and the child is intrinsically propelled to learn formal music."

in my own personal music fun, i think i never left orff. the bands i had the most fun in were basically orff-ish.
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when shasta and i played together along with wererobin, it was called "dolphins of the forest"...that website was sort of a happy accident to find after the fact.
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