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Re: Cheng, bukharian hammered dulcimer
- From: Pete Rushefsky <klezbanjo...>
- Subject: Re: Cheng, bukharian hammered dulcimer
- Date: Tue 09 Apr 2002 14.15 (GMT)
Lark in the Morning Music (San Francisco) had one of these for sale on their
web site. Might have some information about tunings.
Beverly Woods <tradmusic (at) earthlink(dot)net> wrote: 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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