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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 9772023, member: 55"]It could possibly be played with hammers like a hammered dulcimer; but in the US and most other countries, hammered dulcimers are trapezoid-shaped, not rectangular; and I've never heard of one being two-sided.</p><p>And Roaring20s examples have a totally different bridge arrangement, and bridge arrangement is pretty important in classifying instruments.</p><p>I'm at a loss, have never seen anything similar, and am not familiar with any ethnic instruments with a two-sided set-up.</p><p>(There was in the US many years ago a company that made a few double-sided instruments the size of a ukulele, where each side had a fingerboard, bridge, strings, and sound-hole. One side set up like a uke, the other like a mandolin. Just flip it over to change instruments...however, both sounded terrible, and it was darned hard to play,)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]481924[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 9772023, member: 55"]It could possibly be played with hammers like a hammered dulcimer; but in the US and most other countries, hammered dulcimers are trapezoid-shaped, not rectangular; and I've never heard of one being two-sided. And Roaring20s examples have a totally different bridge arrangement, and bridge arrangement is pretty important in classifying instruments. I'm at a loss, have never seen anything similar, and am not familiar with any ethnic instruments with a two-sided set-up. (There was in the US many years ago a company that made a few double-sided instruments the size of a ukulele, where each side had a fingerboard, bridge, strings, and sound-hole. One side set up like a uke, the other like a mandolin. Just flip it over to change instruments...however, both sounded terrible, and it was darned hard to play,) [ATTACH=full]481924[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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