Re: Cimbalom

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

Thanks, Paul.  It's good to have that information.  The only actual santur
I've had in my hands, though, was a very small and exquisite instrument that
came to me for tuning.  It was strung with double courses.  The owner had
found it in a flea market and she had fallen in love with the instrument in
its fitted case with its delicate little hammers.  That's another
difference: the hammers are so light that the playing style doesn't involve
rebounding the hammers off of the strings.

Owen 

At 01:41 PM 3/31/98 EDT, Paul Gifford wrote:

>Most Iranian santurs have four strings per course, but you've pointed
>out the significant difference with the intervals.  The 
>Kashmiri/Indian ones are larger, but are made with two strings per 
>course (I've got one, but I confess I haven't looked at it in a 
>while). 
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