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This week, I will share you guys about European music!

A lot of famous musical instruments were born from Europe.

Typical examples are Nyckel Harpa, which was established by Swedish during the 16^th century, was one of the most traditional Swedish ethnic musical instruments.

Also, Flamenco Guitar, which was Spanish musical instrument and it makes higher pitched sounds than the other types of the guitar. These instruments were started to use a long time ago, but even today, its keep using all over the world.

Above these famous European musical instruments, today, I would like to introduce “Tin Whistle” in detail. In the 18^th century, Irish people created it, and it is one of the most popular flutes in Europe.

However, actually Tin Whistle was infamous until the movie Titanic was started in the beginning of the 21th century. Many people are known as the movie “Titanic” was created by James Cameron in 1997. At the ending of the film, there was a song, named “My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)”, which was sung by Celine Marie Claudette Dion and the main of this song, Tin Whistle was used.

Many people impressed by this song since it was the first music using the Tin Whistle, thus, it makes different sounds than usual songs, and eventually, the song sold over 20 million copies!

You can hear the Tin Whistle’s sound at the very beginning of the music.

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Aloha! My name's Ryo Sugimura.

I like listening to the music, and music helps my life a lot.

So, I will share you guys about the world music from today!

For this week, I'll  introduce the Hawaiian music. 

The Hawaiian music has an original musical style: an original rhythm, which is not included the other countries music, and it uses own musical instruments such as Ukulele and Steel Guitar.

As many people known as, the Hawaiian music is consists of a lot of musical genres such as Hula and Reggae. Above these genres, I would like to introduce about the Hawaiian wedding songs. 

Actually, there are approximately 200 Hawaiian wedding songs. 

Typical examples are “I will Weave a Lei of Stars for you”, which was written by Robert Cazimero, “White Sandy Beach” which was written by Willie Dann, and “To you Sweet Heart Aloha” which was written by Harry Owens, was the last song played at any Hawaii dance or night club.

Above these famous songs, I would like to introduce one of the most popular Hawaiian wedding songs, “Ke Kali Nei Au”, which was written by Charles E. King in 1926. 

Charles wrote the music with Hawaiian lyrics and titled it "Ke Kali Nei Au", which meant "Waiting Here for You". Afterward, in 1958, Al Hoffman and Dick Manning translated the Hawaiian lyrics into English christening the song. Not only the wedding in Hawaii, but also many European countries are using this song. 

Individually, I really like the tempo and rhythm of this music.

Hope I can use it someday…

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