In the age of digital music it seems striking that so many of us still want to produce music concretely with our bodies; through the movement of our limbs; lungs and fingers; in contact with those materials and objects which are capable of producing sounds. The huge sales figures of musical instruments in the global market; and the amount of time and effort people of all ages invest in mastering the tools of music; make it clear that playing musical instruments is an important phenomenon in human life. By combining the findings made in music psychology and performative ethnomusicology; Marko Aho shows how playing a musical instrument; and the pleasure musicians get from it; emerges from an intimate dialogue between the personally felt body and the sounding instrument. An introduction to the general aspects of the tactile resources of musical instruments; musical style and the musician is followed by an analysis of the learning process of the regional kantele style of the Perho river valley in Finnish Central Ostrobothnia.
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