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Meridianum Ensemble – An Evening Concert from LEAP
September 16, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 11:30 pm
£12.00
The Meridianum Ensemble
Saturday 16th September at 7.30pm (doors 7pm).
Licenced bar
Tickets £12 from The Dairy in Lustleigh or
Ticketsource: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/lustleigh-entertainment-and-arts-project/t-rpaqjoy
The Meridainum Ensemble brings together musicians from the UK, Portugal and Morocco, playing a range of material drawing on influences from each member’s specialist area.
They combine expertise, unusual instruments and individual musical styles to create a new, unique sound.
Meridians are the lines of longitude on a map that link the North and South poles. By coincidence, the countries of Morocco, Portugal and the UK are roughly in a line.
Louis Bingham – Cittern, tambura, bass; Ricardo de Noronha – Percussion; Sofian Saihi – Oud; Griselda Sanderson – Fiddle & nyckelharpa; Nuno Silva – Persian Santur; Steve Tyler – Hurdy-gurdy
The instruments….
The Oud is a fretless lute and dates back to at least the 8th century. It is played with a long plectrum called a risha in Arabic.
The strings of the Hurdy-gurdy are sounded by turning a rosined wheel. A set of keys changes the pitches on the melody strings. It dates as far back as the 10th century.
The Nyckelharpa (meaning “keyed fiddle”) is a bowed instrument and is the national instrument of Sweden. It dates back to the 14thcentury.
The Persian Santur has its ancient origins in Mesopotamia and is a type of hammed dulcimer with a range of about three octaves. It is played with two mezrab, which are feather-light mallets.
The Cittern is developed from the medieval citole. It is a pear-shaped and fretted with four courses of paired strings.
The tambura is also a fretted instrument dating back to the 3rdmillennium B.C. It has a long neck, chromatic frets and a carved bowl-like body. Similar instruments are dotted throughout the Balkans and Middle East.
