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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: two very strange plucked yayli tanbur solos
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:08:23 -0400 (EDT)
two very strange plucked yayli tanbur solos http://www.alansondheim.org/hev1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/hev2.mp3 the tanbur neck is adjustable, as are the strings and bridge of course. the result is that there are a variety of ways to set it; i've lowered the action to the extent that i need to apply hiss control filtering to get rid of string rattle - on the other hand, this allows me to play faster and with more complexity. i'm clumsy on the quarter-tones, but i find resonant intervals among them that create melodic clusters. the tanbur itself has 48 frets; the yayli tanbur has 56. more images from odyssey-armageddon http://www.alansondheim.org/ arm pngs