Kint Sonnemont ([info]kint) wrote,
@ 2009-03-31 22:28:00
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I'm not made of money...
...so apparently I need to slow down. After all of six or seven weeks of renting a 13/12 dulcimer, I upgraded and bought a very nice 16/15 with a good chunk of my tax return. This was SUPPOSED to hold me for a while, but NO! Apparently I'm moving along fast enough and -- just another month or so later -- Jody has commented at least twice now that I'll "be ready for an upgrade soon!"

At the very least, an instrument in that range starts around $1750, but with the progress I'm making I really should just go all out with the $2800 one. Like I have that just sitting around. Oy.

Do I have any gracious and well-off donors out there? Thought not! Fortunately Jody assures me that my current instrument should be ok for a good while yet at least. Time to start saving! I've never been very good at that...


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[info]altivo
2009-04-01 01:13 pm UTC (link)
If I had unlimited funds (dream on) I'd get Gary a Hungarian cimbalom. Those are almost as large as a small harpsichord, with a damper pedal, and are used in "gypsy" orchestras and occasionally with classical symphonies in Eastern Europe. Magnificent sound and technique, but of course true virtuoso players are becoming scarce. Zoltan Kodaly used the cimbalom quite often in his music.

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[info]kint
2009-04-01 06:11 pm UTC (link)
All in good time, right? :-D That's pretty cool! I was not at all familiar.

Edited at 2009-04-01 06:11 pm UTC

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