Hi All Great to hear all your comebacks to questions which must get pretty irritating over time. Last weekend I was at a local music festival where my h-g teacher was playing with her husband's puppet show (Hand to Mouth, very funny).I was tuning up before the folk session and people kept asking 'what is it' which was fine. Then an Egyptian student came up and got quite excited because it reminded him of his instrument which is the oud! I don't see that but was pleased to talk. We chatted a bit about links between early European and middle-eastern music, he had a play of my instrument, and could see that it could be retuned to any number of modal scales...sometimes it does that by itself! So maybe the answer to 'what is it' is 'whatever you want it to be'.
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