Geophone (musical instrument) Geophone (musical instrument) The geophone is a percussion instrument, invented by the French composer Olivier Messiaen for use in his large composition for piano and orchestra entitled "Des canyons aux étoiles…" ("From the canyons to the stars…"). It consists of a drum filled with thousands of small lead pellets, and is played by swirling it around slowly so that the noise of the pellets resembles the sound of dry shifting earth. Messiaen commissioned a Parisian instrument maker to construct one to his design, and he carried this instrument worldwide to early performances of the piece (which was given its first
Pena (musical instrument) believed that the name of the instrument is a derivation of the ancient Meetei term ,Pena sheijing Pena. The Nagas call the instrument, "Tingtelia". 1".Yaikairol (for peoples to make make up)" 2..Lai-eekouba (By doing this to start Lai-haraoba festivals) 3.Khunung -Eesei (Folk songs ) 4.Luhongba ( Marriage) 5.Wari -Liba ( narrating story by using this mussical instrument) 6.PuYa Paba ( Reading PuYa by using this musical instrument ) The instrument consist of two parts, the main body, "penamasa" or "dhorr" which is similar to that of a violin and the bow, "pena cheijing" or "chorr", which is more resembling an