Spiridon Shishigin

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Spiridon Shishigin was born on the first August of 1950 in the village of Tabaga in the Megino-Kangalassky District of the Sacha Republic (Yakutia). The renowned smith S. I. Gogolev lived in Tabaga, and almost every family had a Khomus. When he was ten years old, his older brother Alexei gave him a Khomus. As often as he could, he watched and listened to how the babushki played it; right away he learned how to produce the different sounds. In 1968 he entered the Physics-Mathematics Department of the Yakutsk State University. In his student years he took part in and became a laureate of the festivals of amateurs in the arts “Friendship Days”, in which students gathered from the whole Soviet Union. Taking part in these festivals started his creative concerns in playing the kKhomus; he spent much time in playing the Khomus, in inventing many new techniques, in extracting from this marvelous instrument all sorts of new sounds. It was just in those years that he became a prize-winner of the 5th All-Union Festival of Young People and Students; just in those years he met Ivan Alexeyev. Listening to his advice, he stopped being carried away by outwardly attractive sounds and began to play more attention to the substance of his playing, trying to convey through the medium of the khomus one’s emotional state to the listener. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Soul of Yakutia

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Rhythms of the Tundra

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Sing, My Khomus : Jew's Harp Of The Sakha(Yakut) People, Eastern Siberia

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Khomus: Jew's Harp Music of Turkic Peoples In The Urals, Siberia, and Central Asia

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Guimbardes

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Khomus - Jew's harp music of Turkic peoples in the Urals, Siberia and Central...

4th International Jew's Harp Festival

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First Hungarian Jew's Harp Festival

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Sehr Gut Radio #56

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Maultrommelfestival Molln 1998 (Disc 2)

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Siberia Extreme: Definitive Music From Siberia And Central Asia

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poi moi homus

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