Re: Looking for a cimbalom

[Seth Austen <klezmusic...>]

on 6/10/01 10:33 AM, Seth Austen at klezmusic (at) earthlink(dot)net wrote:

> We also recently got hold of a santur made
> many years ago by West Virginia hammered dulcimer builder Sam Rizzetta. It
> has a nice sound as well, is a bit more portable than the Jankowski and has
> a 4+ octave range.

errata...

The santur has a 3 and a half octave range, I just went back and checked it.
Wishful thinking, that extra half octave.

If you like the tuning scheme of the Jankowski, I/we highly recommend it,
we're quite happy with the sound of it, despite the smaller range (if it
only went down another whole step to the low C for all those D tunes...).

Seth 

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