Re: Cheng, bukharian hammered dulcimer

[Beverly Woods <tradmusic...>]

I've told Asher that if he can make the trip down here to NH at some point I
think I can help him with this.

Beverly
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> Right---as I recall, the book by Tamara Vyzgo and A. Petrosyants, _Uzbekskii
> orkestr narodnykh instrumentov_ (Tashkent: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo
> Khudozhestvennoi Literatury UzSSR, 1962), pp. 30-31, gives the ranges of the
> four sizes, but not the specific tunings. Probably the instrument is taught at
> the conservatory in Tashkent, though who knows whether it is still being
> manufactured. I have a tuning for the older chang in the book, showing that it
> was basically "diatonic" (this is from Belaiev's 1933 book). Likely the
> post-1938 instruments had a chromatic tuning.  Anybody experienced with the
> instrument could figure out a likely tuning, though, but you'd have to find
> someone familiar with string tensions.  You've got a real rarity.

> Paul Gifford

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