"かもめの水平さん / Seagulls, The Sailormen" accompaniment on its own ♪ arr. Koyo Kawamura ♪ chromatic harp
0In the book "101 Favorite Songs - Taught in Japanese Schools" (The Japan Times, Ltd. (1991)), there's a song called "かもめの水平さん / Seagulls, The Sailormen" in an arrangement by Koyo Kawamura. This is the piano accompaniment on its own, played on chromatic harp.
More about the chromatic harp in my video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdRN2xSOG4 .
Sea photo on the title slide was made by me on the beach in Porto, Portugal.
Photos in this video made by me on the beaches of Scheveningen and Katwijk aan Zee, both in the Netherlands.
Book info from which I got the sheet music:
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26896854M/101_favorite_songs_taught_in_Japanese_schools
https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/998317783506421
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/101-favorite-songs-taught-japanese-schools/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4789005690/ref=nosim/?tag=librarythin06-20
Info about this song from the book:
Seagulls, The Sailormen (1933)
This song was composed by Koyo Kawamura in 1933 and published as a record in 1937 by King Records. In 1926 the Taisho Era ended and the Showa Era began. All the magazines who supported the Doyo Age were already gone, and instead, a group of record companies came in. With them began the Record Doyo Age. Their commercialism would never accept "high brow" songs. What they were looking for the was the second Ujo and Shimpei. Koyo Kawamura satisfied them. He studied music from Kiyomi Fujii who was a friend of Ujo Noguchi and belonged to the "Kin-no Hoshi" (Golden Star) which had been reorganized from "Kin-no Fune" (Golden Ship). This magazine was closely related to Nagayo Motoori and Shimpei Nakayama. This means that Koyo Kawamura was a person who followed the tradition of the popular, comprehensive Doyo musicians.
For comparison, I used the exact same microphone to record a song with my lever harp in these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qPY7rN8XHE&list=PLg2mtqSFBT7lTm5wOkXGjzQ8wQZNOGZyc&index=7&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCfuH06nCaM&list=PLg2mtqSFBT7lTm5wOkXGjzQ8wQZNOGZyc&index=12&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SBzTWWmGbM&list=PLg2mtqSFBT7lTm5wOkXGjzQ8wQZNOGZyc&index=18&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB .
More chromatic harp music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg2mtqSFBT7l2B6xZ993jk_zzZg_2q0h6
All my harp recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg2mtqSFBT7lTm5wOkXGjzQ8wQZNOGZyc
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Recorded with:
- Zoom LiveTrak-L8 recording device:
https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/digital-mixer-multi-track-recorders/digital-mixer-recorder/LIVETRAK-L-8/
- Ischell X48C3 contact microphone:
https://www.ischell.com/en/products/x48c/
- Chromatic harp (type 6/6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdRN2xSOG4
built by me at Klangwerkstatt workshop, Germany
in November 2023
https://www.klangwerkstatt.de/
Note: I am just listing my recording equipment for informational purposes! I'm not affiliated with these companies in any way and I bought everything myself. When other people post videos of their recordings, I'm also always interested in how exactly they recorded it, which equipment they used, etc. It's because I wanted to know how I could best record the sound and other people might be looking for similar information.