Some of my Instruments:
This unassuming collection of tubes is one of the most powerful
instruments I know of. A one-person wind section, a pipe organ with the
intimacy of breath. It's called a Khaen, and is played in Laos and Northeastern
Thailand.
This is a 20th Century cousin to the Khaen; a chromatic Chinese Sheng with
elaborate keywork.
This is a "power stack" of Gu Zchungs, which are Chinese
Harps. (Yes I know I'm spelling them unconventionally.) I play them in
a stack in order to 
have more notes available- the two instruments
are tuned in interlocking pentatonic scales. The Gu Zchung is wonderful
to play because of the brilliant resonance and the extraordinary range of
touch and nuance.
Indian Raga is the oldest and seemingly deepest musical tradition available
to us. I struggle with a number of raga instruments:
The Surbahar, a bass Sitar
and...
The Esraj
a bowed Sitar...
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