China Batik

Batik artistic works has reached to the highest level of fame in today’s world of fashion. This artistic work is now utilized in garments and various cloth materials. Some of the fame Batik works that hit the globe is Sashay in Sarongs or Caftans created from Batik. Many people create duplicate Batik works and get circulated in the local markets. In order to bring good rich quality Batik work one has to follow the Batik and Tie and Dye methods.

Many people have different hobbies. Some of them collect stamps, coins, peculiar articles, like key chain watches, etc; some are costly especially if they are very old like traditional clocks and watches. Collecting Musical Instrument is really a costly hobby. One should have their pocket full so that they can collect them easily. It is a difficult thing to collect unlike other small things, which can be got by either exchanging or investing small amounts. But collecting musical instruments is really very expensive. We can neither exchange nor get gift from others since it is costly. Some old age instruments are very expensive and found in traditional heritage shops.
Some of the unique instruments are Borneo, Sarawak, and the Sape etc. Sape is a guitar type with 3 or 5 strings. Basically the musical instruments can distinguished as three types of instruments. They are string type, based on wine, percussion.
String type instruments are mostly common.. They include the veena, guitar, bull bull thara, sitar, gopichand; Instruments like guitar are played by moving one hand in the string and at the same time playing the free end with the other hand. With an small piece;
In veena one hand presses the taut string at different places while giving beat at the far end which is free. Gopichand is a similar instrument played in Bengal. It is an instrument played by the street vendors.
Wind based instruments include flute, mouth organ, clarinet, Didgeridoo etc. The flute has holes in one end and the other far end has a hole through which air is blown. Clarinet is a similar type of instrument only thing is it kept straight where a flute is held horizontally. Didgeridoo is an instrument originated from Australians, where the aborigine tribal group played it.
The other types of instruments are harmonium, piano. These use a lot of keys in the key board. In harmonium air is blown into the instrument and the keys pressed to get the required sound. Piano is a similar instrument in which there are 5 to 6 notes available and each note denotes the pitch level.
Musical instruments are really gifts given to us by God. Music lovers can have a wide range of collection of instruments. These music lovers spend a lot in collecting musical instruments. It is very rare to find second hand instruments. Each one will be really costly. It is supposed to be one of the costliest hobbies. But still some music lovers don’t mind spending on the goods they feel like collecting. Very rarely second hand instruments are available .Sometimes after buying we have to spend from our pocket to get the instrument to play.

Know about Bob Marley
Profile
Bob Marley was christened to a mixed race of father Norval Sinclair Marley of 50 years old and Mother Cedella Booker who was at the age of eighteen. Because of racial discrimination Bob underwent several hurdles in early career. At the age of ten his father was demised.
Bob was named as “Tuff Gong” due to his gorgeous look and stamina that he had during the early days of his career. The family of Bob was transferred to Kingston from Jamaica after the demise of his father. During this period he came across Bunny Wailer, Joe Higgs, and Peter Tosh as his compatriots. Bob began his working career in a welding store where he used to play music during the leisure period.
Golden Period of Bob
‘Judge Not’ and ‘One Cup of Coffee’ was his Bob’s maiden score of music during the year of 1962. Bob formed a band naming it as ‘The Wailers”. The songs like ‘I’m Still Waiting’ and ‘It Hurts to be Alone’ was presented in duo of famous producer Clement Dodd. During 1966 Bob married to a girl called Rita Anderson.
The Wailers band in association with Dodd had many famous tunes among which “One Love’, Simmer Down’,’ Soul Rebel’ and ‘400 Years’ songs created huge fan followers in Jamaica.
Due to his repeated concept of Rastafarian in the songs made him to loose many followers and was made to strand alone. He was at last pushed to earn his bread and butter by working in an industry.
After five years struggle from 1968 to 1973, The Wailers entered in to music world with a bang debut of ‘Catch a Fire’ and ‘Burnin’ albums. Burnin album had good collection of fame songs like ‘Get Up, Stand Up’ and ‘I Shot the Sheriff’. The music world discovered the entry of Rita Marley.
In 1974, The Wailer band with drew some of the older band members owing to personal reasons. But sooner ,The Wailer band introduced many new comers namely Carlton and Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett (drums and bass), Junior Marvin and Al Anderson (lead guitar), Tyrone Downie and Earl ‘Wya’ Lindo (keyboards), Alvin ‘Seeco’ Patterson (percussion), and the ‘I Threes’ (backing vocals).
Bob’s a hit includes ‘No Woman, No Cry’and Rastaman Vibration’ albums which was released during the year 1974. The other major albums like ‘Exodus’ and ‘Kaya’ got good success. In a mishap Bob Marley, his wife and manager Don Taylor were astonishingly saved their life with minor injuries. The grey period of Bob was when he was put behind the bars owing to usage of narcotics and later was released.

Jamaica is a small island situated near South America. Most of its population consists of S Africans who were taken as slaves by the Europeans long back. These South Africans have settled there for generations. The Europeans include, German, Spanish, Irish, English and Scottish. The population includes others like Asians, Syrians etc, who are minority. Most of them are S Africans. Some of the slaves ran away from here and are called maroons. They have their own tradition.
Most of the Jamaicans speak English which is their national language. Some of them speak a combination of Spanish, German, Irish and Scottish known as patois. Jamaicans have passion for sports, like cricket, soccer, polo etc. They are very friendly type of people
The Jamaicans being traditionally South Africans prefer to cover their legs so they wear long robes with a hat. They eat fresh fish. Their traditions food is ackkai. Most of them prefer to be vegetarians. They love eating vegetarian food. They usually have the habit of carrying their shopping things in two baskets hanged on either side of a pole and holding the pole in the head. They buy the fruits and vegetables they need fresh from the market rather than in super stores. Since it is an Island they get fresh fish in the market place. Fresh fishes are soft and tasty to eat.
Most of them are highly religious. There are quite a number of churches in the small Island. Since they come from different parts one good see congregation of Roman Catholics, Baptists, Anglicans and Jehovah’s. They are highly religious and follow the different rituals according to the religion they follow.
They are highly talented people especially in sports and music. They are familiar in Reggae music. The Internationally famous singer Bob Marley is a Jamaican. Other famous singers from Jamaica are Sly Dunbar, Shabba Ranks Black Uhuru and Robby Shakespeare won Gammy Awards in Reggae category.
Since they Jamaicans come from different countries they have a mixture of all the cultures. And the language is also a mixture of all the languages. They themselves laugh at each others and have fun making fun of the others. Since they have lived there for generations they don’t have any racial discrimination. Most of them are S Africans. Although the first generation were not educated and came to work there as slaves now they have become well educated and are in high posts and work in all big government offices. Being minority the other country people don’t have a say. They all mingle with each other as one country men. Jamaicans have now spread all over the world and work in different parts of the world.