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pazimzadeh • today at 7:07 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

He touched on the difference in how we perceive minor chords but the 'texture' of sound can have a big impact as well.

For me there's something magical in the reed flute (ney) that's almost trancelike, same with many traditional Persian instruments:

songs with reed flute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVCciFbfhM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cifAO6bPOY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zRZ183KcO8

other traditional Persian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv_JhKJRr2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWYXSndbMFg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddxrUt1Szv4

I grew up listening to music like this so I wonder what effect it has on others

and here is a musical rendition of a poem by Rumi about the reed flute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbSCUOTLZBo

Lyric translation/transliteration: https://www.icloud.com/notes/0d7PZiAnuCJFlDdhPvv2NnLcg

"Rumi, the great poet of Persia, often speaks about the ney and his great work Masnavi opens with the words “listen to the ney”. He says the pains and sorrows the soul experiences through life are like holes made in a reed flute, and it is by making these holes that a player makes the flute out of a reed. This means that the heart of man is first a reed and the sufferings and pains it goes through make it a flute which can then be used by God as the instrument for the music that He constantly wishes to produce. It was on the model of the heart of man that the first musical instrument was made, and no earthly instrument can produce that music which the heart produces, raising the mortal soul to immortality."

https://library.acropolis.org/the-reed-flute-in-sufism/