one thirty-nine in the morning and long-necked saz https://youtu.be/N5hH2Ku8X5A video long-necked saz which i've described before, a truly wonderful instrument with 8 strings in this configuration, the grace of movement along the long neck of course, the body with the small door that may be opened changing the sound, the supplication and the care necessary to preserve and play it, and as i mentioned a long time ago, traced the maker to a workshop in turkey and was able to contact the his son since this is a true survivor and it was as i mentioned before amir vahab who restored it and i feel if there were a spirit they would be listening not to my playing but to the sound of the instrument itself and i remember seeing it in music inn in new york and then hearing just the sound and there was an ethiopian 78 record decades and decades ago that had a phrase that opened up within this and my false memories tell me this was played first in the thin air of mars which could not sustain the tone but the long-necked saz even there triumphed and i worry when i pass who will play this and make certain it survives everything today so fragile so becoming unbecoming raveled and unraveled may the sound continue and may it continue well and beyond the sound _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] one thirty-nine in the morning and long-necked saz
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour Fri, 07 Jun 2024 17:35:08 -0700
