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Martin Swan (born Sheffield, England) is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, record producer, recording engineer and instrument designer. Swan is best known as the leader of the Mouth Music project, whose combination of traditional Gaelic songs and music with contemporary instrumental and technological settings led them to international fame and number 1 placings in world music sales charts in the early 1990s. His multi-instrumental skills and his approach towards the making of folk music (eclectic, restless and frequently non-purist) has seen him compared to a folk music version of Prince.〔( “Mouise Mujic Out Of Scotland, Africa” ) – 4th Door Review interview with Mouth Music circa 1996, retrieved 7 December 2008〕 Swan is also involved in the restoration, manufacture and design of string instruments. Though born in England, Swan is of Scottish descent and identifies as Scottish. ==Musical abilities== Martin Swan is known to play the following instruments: *Stringed instruments: fiddle, acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltery, berimbau, erhu *Keyboard instruments: keyboards/synthesizers, accordion *Wind instruments: concert flute, low whistle, block flute, bamboo flute, shawm *Acoustic percussion: drum kit, bass drum, tambourine, maracas, conga, tabla, timbales, triangle, darbouka, djembe, cowbell, xylophone, bells, calabash, mbira, shaker, cabassa, cuica *Electronics: electronic percussion, synthesizer programming, rhythm programming. Swan also sings (mostly backing vocals, but more recently lead vocals) and whistles, and is a skilled musical arranger. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martin Swan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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