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From: phaedrus@eneevax.UUCP (Praveen Kumar)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Santoor/Dulcimer
Message-ID: <373@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 12:27:13 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 28 12:27:13 1985
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Recently I had the chance to meet Shiv Kumar Sharma (he performed
here at U. Maryland) and, I asked him a similar question.  He said
that the Santoor is originally a Persian instrument.  He said that
he had no idea what the origins of the hammer dulcimer are but, he
does not think they are of similar origins.  He thinks they were just
parallel developments.  Apparently, the hammer dulcimer sounds quite
different to him.
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			Praveen Kumar

Don't bother me! I'm on an emergency third rail power trip.

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