Duggy wrote:
> On Mar 4, 8:12 am, Amy Guskin  wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:33:02 -0500, Aleks A.-Lessmann wrote
(in article
>>>> ): On
Tue, 26 Feb 2008
>>>> 00:30:58 GMT, Bruce Goatly wrote: Amy Guskin wrote:
>>>>> I mean?  Anyone ever heard those Tuvan throat
singers?"  Now, this was 
>>>>> a
>>>> Respect, Amy. Tuvan throat singing is simply amazing. If you haven't
>>>> heard
>>> Is it the same as Mongolian throat singing? Or does it sound different? 
>>> <<
>> I've never heard Mongolian throat singing, but my understanding is that
>> they are basically the same technique with some local variation.  The
>> Tuvan is the kind you hear about because they're practicing it more
>> broadly across their society than anyone else practicing it.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_singing
>
> Includes some stuff on both.  None of which I understand.

Thanks very much for that, Duggy. I evidently owe Amy a bit of an apology 
for misleading her - naturally enough, Altai-Hangai are from Altai, not 
Tuva; the two are neigbo(u)rs, though, so it's probably not serious.

-- 
Bruce
--- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32