I’m always fascinated with World music, since it features the different sounds of all corners of the globe. It’s the various musical instruments used in the songs that I find very entertaining. There’s a distinct sound for each group; play them side by side and it’s all musical bliss.
I love the brass instruments of North America Western Europe, even the synthesizers which is very much employed in the mainstream music as well. No strings, tubes or hammers, just electric current. Total ear candy! I also enjoy listening to mariachi of Mexico, with their non-electric guitars and accordions, you know, those keyboard instruments that you squeeze to make sounds. Even the panpipes and marimbas of Ecuador sounds good, their historical Inca musicians played them. Moving towards the Asian region, the Chinese plays a lot of bells, drums, gongs, flutes and stringed instruments call the quin and pipa. Same as the Chinese, the Japanese plays a lot of bells, drums, gongs and flutes too, including their own kinds of ancient stringed instruments. But my most favorite of all is the gamelan orchestra of Indonesia, where they play main instruments by striking them. In college I used to sit at the university garden and enjoy the music every time the Gamelan Ensemble play and practice their sets outdoors. Beautiful!
But well, there could not be an instrument more amazing than our own voice, which is the universal musical instrument and available in all places in the world. The human voice, so flexible, is the only instrument that can give goosebumps. Just by watching really great singers sing on stage, or even on TV makes my hair stand up! I absolutely don’t have a gift like theirs, but oh well, it doesn’t hurt to sing once in a while especially with the karaoke mic and loud speakers turned on. Besides, karaoke microphones, like our very own Magic Sing, were not invented for those with great voices only. It was invented for everybody who loves singing!
So just let the music reach your ears, and always enjoy!