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My trip to Budapest did involve a partially disassembled cimbalom (of the "Hungarian" type). But that's nothing compared to the museum that Dumneazu mentioned while I was gone:
And speaking of good things, free pianos are also fun for those who like to tinker with more complicated instruments.
Tags: music, organology, cimbalom
There can be too much of a good thing, you know. Witness Pete Rushevsky's collection of tsimbls - small cimbaloms of east Europe, located in his rather tiny flat on Manhatten's upper west side. Magyar cimbaloms, Ukrainian and Belorussian tsymbalys, Romanian tambal mic, if it's stringed and you hammer it, and it fits in a Volkswagen, Pete has somehow acquired it and learned to play it. (More)
And speaking of good things, free pianos are also fun for those who like to tinker with more complicated instruments.
Tags: music, organology, cimbalom
Posted 08 December 2006 at 01:41.
A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.
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