I decided to upload this because I love Handy Manny. If you hate this show, I respect your opinion. Reasons why I like Handy Manny: 1. It was my childhood. 2. I played this game when I was very young.
This game is my childhood. I love the sheer diversity of musical instruments, styles, genres, and traditions from all over the world. Let me tell you about the ones in the game that they picked. Australia's selection features the yidaki (so-called "didgeridoo"), a very sacred ceremonial instrument in Indigenous Australian culture which only men are allowed to play. Traditionally, a yidaki is made of a eucalyptus tree hollowed by termites. Yidaki players use a technique called circular breathing to play it. I saw someone play it in an art festival here in Canada, though it was probably appropriative in this case. For China's selection, I could recognize two instruments. The erhu is the fiddle playing the melody, while the guzheng is the large zither playing chords in the background. Germany's selection features a brass band. If you listen closely, you can hear that the clip was clearly edited. Hungary's selection features some lute. It may or may not be the cobza. I'd assume India's selection features a veena of some kind. It probably isn't a sitar because a sitar has a more vibrant timbre. In the background, you can hear the tanpura, a long-necked lute that produces a drone. Indonesia's selection features gamelan, the traditional ensemble music of Java and Bali and a part of Southeast Asian gong culture. The melodic instruments are mostly metallophones, some of which have gongs. There is also kendang, a kind of barrel-shaped hand drum, a banana-shaped metal slit drum called kemanak, and sometimes, xylophones, flutes, rebab (a bowed string instrument), and siter (a zither). Ireland's selection is essentially the traditional music you may find in a pub, with the likes of violins, flutes, tin whistles, guitars, bouzoukis, banjos, concertinas, and a frame drum called a bodhrán. Japan's selection features koto, a long zither derived from the Chinese guzheng, and shakuhachi, an end-blown bamboo flute. I am not sure if the shamisen, a plucked lute played using a plectrum called bachi, is also present. Mexico's selection features mariachi, that iconic ensemble that usually consists of violins, trumpets, guitars, vihuela, and guitarrón. Mariachi music typically includes vocals. Peru's selection features Andean folk music, one of my favourites. In it, you can hear three instruments play the melody: violin, charango (possibly), and panpipes (assumably). In addition, you can hear a guitar play the chords in the background. There also may or may not be a double bass and/or bombo. Scotland's selection features a pipe band. The Great Highland bagpipe is by far the most popular bagpipe in the world; other bagpipes exist, such as the Irish uilleann pipes and Bulgarian kaba gaida, though they are more obscure. I'd assume South Africa's selection is just stock music. Finally, Spain's selection features classical guitar. The modern classical guitar was designed by iconic luthier Antonio de Torres Jurado. There are thousands more instruments and traditions, from the banjo (derived from West African lutes) to the khaen (a Southeast Asian mouth organ popularized by Hal Walker), from samba (an Afro-Brazilian genre popular in Rio de Janeiro) to dabke (an energetic Levantine dance); the list goes on. I hope this helps.
