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Thread #12070 Message #93153
Posted By: Peter T.
07-Jul-99 - 01:37 PM
Thread Name: hammered dulcimer- how difficult to learn?
Subject: RE: hammered dulcimer- how difficult to learn?
Thanks catspaw for speedy response. Last stupid question (not ever, of course): can you vary the tone of the strings, so as to get microtones, by damping, etc., as with the cymbalon, or are the strings more or less fixed? I am interested partly because I have an interest in Japanese koto music and Indonesian gamelan (can't play either, don't get the wrong idea, I have just listened to a lot in my travels to those shores), and never thought about home-grown dulcimers.
yours, Peter T.