Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0907250233070.28371@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: new cobza and rebab (yes!)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:33:50 -0400 (EDT)
cobza and rebab http://www.alansondheim.org/cobza3.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/cobza4.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/cobza5.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/rebab.mp3 I love playing the cobza; it can sound like a miniature orchestra, even with an incredibly short neck. It's the shortness that allows the strings to fan out at the other end, so that the double and triple courses may be plucked as individual strings. The rebab is new, two-stringed from Palestine, and difficult. I've yet to find an online picture of this particular style.