2014-08-21 - The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

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Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1408210105470.20266@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: * / qinqin
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 01:07:50 -0400 (EDT)

* / qinqin

http://www.alansondheim.org/fishcove04.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/qinqinsong.mp3

The qinqin is a Chinese instrument based on a scale
of seven 'equidistant' notes (compared to our usual
scale of twelve) to the octave. This opens up a lot
of opportunities; you can hear the scales of Chinese
opera here. It has very high frets and is a bit
difficult to play, but here it is and I'm doing
something related to opera, to pipa music, to dance
and breath, upon it -

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Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1408210942420.21878@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Gambus!
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:45:27 -0400 (EDT)

Gambus!

Item 791 in:

Pierre d'Herouville's

http://inthegapbetween.free.fr/pierre/GAMBUS_PROJECT/06_PORTFOLIO_part6.pdf

There is so much information in the entire Gambus
Project! - Do check this out. I've used the
instrument a lot recently - it sounds amazing.

http://www.alansondheim.org/garudayes.mp3