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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Playing Cura Saz at the Magic Garden
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:54:35 -0400 (EDT)
Playing Cura Saz at the Magic Garden I'd never played cura saz before, but Leah traded one to me for a tenor banjo I had. Steve had invited Azure and me to play with Eric, George, Margarida, and Barry at the Magic Garden. So I finished with electric saz and cobza, then performed on the cura; I must say it was terrific and I received much happiness from the standing-room only audience. I tuned to c/d/c and it beautifully sang, as did Azure. Margarida and Barry drove us back afterwards and we arrived around 3am, whence I began recording with the cura freshly, but this morning it sounded poorly and uninspirational. Now then today I began anew with four recordings of which here are two, complete with reverberation and some hiss removing which increases the bell-like harmonics in a beautiful blend. Oh, it is such a lovely instrument to play and to think it was for the first time at the Magic Garden, and wonderfully! http://www.alansondheim.org/curasaz0.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/curasaz1.mp3 perhaps you will not like one but will like the other