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Canadian Journal for Traditional Music (1998)
Review: The Tsymbaly Maker and His Craft: The Ukranian Hammered Dulcimer in Alberta (Bandera)
Laurel Osborn
Abstract
Mark Jaroslav Bandera. The Tsymbaly Maker and His Craft: The Ukrainian Hammered Dulcimer in Alberta. Edmonton: Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, University of Alberta, Publication No. 1,. 1991. 62 pp.
For those wishing to learn more of Ukrainian tradition and its evolution in Canada, this is a useful study. In a book of only 62 pages, the author briefly outlines the origins of the hammered dulcimer in North America; he then deals specifically with the tsymbaly, or Ukrainian hammered dulcimer in east central Alberta—its place in the musical scheme of things, its lore and its builders.
The typical Old World tsymbaly consists of a trapezoidal frame, 95-130 cm. long and 35-55 cm. wide, a sounding board with one to four holes, and two bridges. Strings in groups of one to six each pass alternately over one bridge and under the other. The player produces sound with two sticks.
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cjtm.icaap.org/content/26/review-osborn.html
Review: The Tsymbaly Maker and His Craft: The Ukranian Hammered Dulcimer in Alberta (Bandera)
Laurel Osborn
Abstract
Mark Jaroslav Bandera. The Tsymbaly Maker and His Craft: The Ukrainian Hammered Dulcimer in Alberta. Edmonton: Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, University of Alberta, Publication No. 1,. 1991. 62 pp.
For those wishing to learn more of Ukrainian tradition and its evolution in Canada, this is a useful study. In a book of only 62 pages, the author briefly outlines the origins of the hammered dulcimer in North America; he then deals specifically with the tsymbaly, or Ukrainian hammered dulcimer in east central Alberta—its place in the musical scheme of things, its lore and its builders.
The typical Old World tsymbaly consists of a trapezoidal frame, 95-130 cm. long and 35-55 cm. wide, a sounding board with one to four holes, and two bridges. Strings in groups of one to six each pass alternately over one bridge and under the other. The player produces sound with two sticks.
etc
cjtm.icaap.org/content/26/review-osborn.html