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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: channeling medieval
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:23:48 -0400 (EDT)
channeling medieval https://www.google.com/search?q=bowlback+mandolin&num=20&newwindow=1&client=firefox-a&hs=ru9&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=cHXWU6_aCZWoyASCrYL4BQ&ved=0CDUQsAQ&biw=1536&bih=769 http://www.alansondheim.org/medieval.mp3 Globe bowlback mandolin, American, 1890-1900 so generally I don't play mandolin but then it reminds me of the oud in shape. so it's tuned probably a third or so low so the instrument doesn't buckle. and then when I play I channel medieval, all these strange tunes coming out, slow, fast, I don't know, they just do. they're just weird., I mean the bowlback mandolins, not the tunes. well the tunes aren't weird, they're like something out of Italy or England or something. but then they're pretty weird, I don't know where they came from, I just play them. I don't get paid for it, but I just play them.
