Re: OT things of sad beauty

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Rick Walker wrote:

> really professional duduk from the sadly lamented Rhythm Fusion in Santa 
> Cruz.
> 
> 3/4 of my entire collection came from that store, parenthetically,   and 
> Dror closed the doors this week
> after 20 years of being one of the finest ethnic music stores on the 
> entire planet.   It's the end of an
> era, 

:-(

> It's a fascinating instrument:   just playing the open holes like a 
> recorder produces no useable musical scale
> so everything is in half hole playing.
> 

this probably means that the reed needs trimming down to size to 
make the scale work.
(check by fingering for an octave, in this case the octave will be flat)

andy