how many hands has Joseph Moskowitz?

[ro <ro...>]

I suspect this query will reveal me as naive and a poor listener,
but I've got a question for the master tsimblists and others.

Listening to "The Art of the Cymbalom, The Music of Joseph Moskowitz
1916-1953", I'm trying to figure out if he is playing solo or not
on many tracks.

The specific one I'm curious about right now is track 2 - Buhusher Chusid.
It sounds to me that there are either 2 cymbalom players or there
is a piano accompiament.  I hear JM playing (fast,complex,tight,
accurate) a melody with fills, and theres also a bassline being played.

Can someone with better listening skills than mine (or who just knows
more than I) tell me which of the following may be true - or some
other possibility I havn't even considered?

1. JM is not only playing the melody and ornaments with two hand
        but is also swinging the right hand back and forth to the
        bass to play bass for himself, somehow interveaving bass
        notes along with the melody notes that fit in the right
        without ever losing the feel of it?

2. JM is playing the whole melody predominantly with the left hand
        and is comping with the right?

3. JM is playing like an SOB (sonofabulgar) on that melody with
        ornaments and fills, but that bass line is coming from
        a piano player?

4. JM had 4 arms and 4 hands and thus was able to play 3 or 4 
        melodic / harmonic lines at once.

5. Les Paul is a liar and JM had invented overdubbing as of 1916.

regards

roger reid
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