Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1203110157170.25806@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: short sarangi video
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:58:28 -0500 (EST)
short sarangi video http://www.alansondheim.org/sarangi5.mp4 this is just a section of a piece; i'm fascinated by the kind of dancing i can do with my fingers, different from say viola or hegelung. the recording is fairly awful, since the mic was fairly distant from the instrument (and the camcorder is cheap), but i did want to take a look at the kind of dance that's possible. the strings are stopped by the fingernails and the sides of the fingers; they're not pressed down to the board. the tuning is Aea for the gut strings, chromatic and (in my case), minor keys for the others. the tuning of the sympathetic strings still isn't complete and everything roams a bit, given the humidity in our place. i'm excited by the sound of the sarangi, in spite of its apparent awkwardness; there are so many possibilities for improvisation. on the other hand, the detuning can be a headache...