Talk:Musical leaf

Hmmm

This doesn't seem likely to be distinctively Cambodian - just another version of making sounds with a leaf, blade of grass, or (in my urban childhood) a paper bus ticket. PamD 14:12, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi PamD, I can't say I completely disagree. I'm working through a United Nations book in which editors in Cambodia worked with the local populace to document what it thought were Cambodian musical instruments. As I've looked at videos of people playing leaves in the U.S., China, Australia and Cambodia, I've seen a parallel to the fiddle--those who know how to play it play it in their own cultural way with their own sound system (for example pentatonic tonal range) or add their own trills. I didn't consider this a serious instrument, but merely a sound effect, until I heard someone who knew what they were doing. As to whether this should be it's own article" I'm starting to lean toward a generalized leaf fiddle or leaf whistle article. But that would require info, and it has been tough finding written sources to use as references. I have a couple articles ahead in line before I could consider expanding this much further. I'm not attached to this, if you have ideas.Jacqke (talk) 18:18, 28 October 2018 (UTC)